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Religion in Chinese Society

31 Dec 1961-Religious Studies (University of California Press)-Vol. 4, Iss: 2
About: This article is published in Religious Studies.The article was published on 1961-12-31. It has received 325 citations till now.
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Fenggang Yang1
TL;DR: The economic approach to religion has confined its application to Christendom in spite of the ambition of the core theorists for its universal applicability as discussed by the authors, and the supply-side market theory has been applied to religion.
Abstract: The economic approach to religion has confined its application to Christendom in spite of the ambition of the core theorists for its universal applicability. Moreover, the supply-side market theory...

324 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the concept of securitization can be used to study security politics in non-democratic contexts in addition to the favored liberal democratic one, where the majority of empirical analysis has been conducted so far.
Abstract: Convincing research programmes often use a variety of data from cases in different contexts; in order to reach a wider understanding, the models and hypothesis of securitization studies have to be applied to broad groups of cases. The research programme of securitization studies is formed around the leading idea of securitization being a social process achieved through speech acts. I argue that by explicating the concept of securitization through illocutionary logic, it can be utilized to study security politics in non-democratic contexts in addition to the favoured liberal democratic one, where the majority of empirical analysis has been conducted so far. In addition, I present clarifications to the concepts of 'audiences' and 'special politics' used in the theory. The theoretical discussion is illustrated with examples from the Chinese political system.

264 citations

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01 Jan 1998
TL;DR: In this paper, Fairbank and Kuhn discuss the origins of the Taiping Rebellion and the creation of the treaty system in the early 1800s, and their impact on the development of Western technology.
Abstract: 1. Introduction: the old order John K. Fairbank 2. Ch'ing Inner Asia c.1800 Joseph Fletcher 3. Dynastic decline and the roots of rebellion Susan Mann Jones and Philip A. Kuhn 4. The Canton trade and the Opium War Frederic Wakeman, Jr 5. The creation of the treaty system John K. Fairbank 6. The Taiping Rebellion Philip A. Kuhn 7. Sino-Russian relations, 1800-62 Joseph Fletcher 8. The heyday of the Ch'ing order in Mongolia, Sinkiang and Tibet Joseph Fletcher 9. The Ch'ing Restoration Kwang-Ching Liu 10. Self-strengthening: the pursuit of Western technology Ting-Yee Kuo and Kwang-Ching Liu 11. Christian missions and their impact to 1900 Paul A. Cohen Bibliographical essays Bibliography Glossary and index.

175 citations

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TL;DR: For instance, the authors argues that the outwardly unitary symbolic character of the goddess Tian Hou concealed important differences in what various social groups believed about her, and that Tian Hou's empress of heaven can be seen as a symbol of social division.
Abstract: Historical studies of how myths and symbols change have only recently begun to emerge. They tend to stress the layered and historically stratified nature of myths, each stratum reflecting the concerns of an epoch or a particular group. Marina Warner (1982) has shown how the image of Joan of Arc has been differently interpreted by Nazis, nationalists, and feminists, among many others, and Jacques Le Goff (1980) has demonstrated how ecclesiastical and popular images of Saint Marcellus of Paris came to resemble each other but ultimately always remained apart. James Watson's stimulating study (1985) of Tian Hou, or the empress of heaven, argues that the outwardly unitary symbolic character of the goddess Tian Hou concealed important differences in what various social groups believed about her. Pioneering as they are, these works are only the start of efforts to probe the enormously complex relationship between change in the symbolic realm and historical change among social groups and institutions.

145 citations