Introduction: Opiate of the Masses with Chinese Characteristics: Recent Chinese Scholarship on the Meaning and Future of Religion

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dc.contributor.authorDuBois, Thomas
dc.contributor.authorZhen, Chi
dc.contributor.editorLu Daji
dc.contributor.editorGong Xuezeng
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-08T22:08:54Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.date.updated2020-12-13T07:29:25Z
dc.description.abstractAlong with the revival of religion itself, China since the 1980s has seen a flowering of theoretical scholarship about the nature of religion, its role in society, and its ultimate fate under socialism. This sort of scholarship divides into themes and schools. The field of religious studies, which is grounded in various branches of the social sciences, has only recently emerged as a discipline in its own right. This field is small but growing, albeit slowly. It stands in stark contrast to Marxist or Marxist-Leninist theory, the study of which continues to occupy a place of prominence in universities and research institutes nationwide, and which also has much to say about the essential features of religion. This collection draws on essays from Religious Studies Theory (Zongjiaoxue lilun) and Marxist Approaches to Religion and Issues in Chinese Contemporary Religion (Makesi zhuyi zongjiao guan yu dangdai Zhongguo zongjiao), two volumes in the series �Highlights of Contemporary Chinese Religion Research� (Dangdai Zhongguo zongjiao yanjiu jingxuan congshu), originally published by Minzu Press in 2008. On its own, each of the original volumes comprises a survey of the state of the field as it is practiced at a particular level in China. Together, they provide insight into how these two perspectives relate to each other, the changing landscape of ideas about religion and Marxism themselves, and the role that this very particular sphere of high-level scholarship might play in the formation and promotion of government policy.
dc.identifier.isbn9789004174566
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/28797
dc.publisherKoninklijke Brill
dc.relation.ispartofMarxism and Religion
dc.relation.isversionof1st Edition
dc.titleIntroduction: Opiate of the Masses with Chinese Characteristics: Recent Chinese Scholarship on the Meaning and Future of Religion
dc.typeBook chapter
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage20
local.bibliographicCitation.placeofpublicationLeiden, The Netherlands
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage1
local.contributor.affiliationDuBois, Thomas, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationZhen, Chi, Unknown
local.contributor.authoremailu4893881@anu.edu.au
local.contributor.authoruidDuBois, Thomas, u4893881
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor220208 - History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences
local.identifier.absfor220315 - Philosophy of Religion
local.identifier.ariespublicationu5025248xPUB60
local.identifier.doi10.1163/9789047428022_002
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu5025248
local.type.statusPublished Version

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