Ancestor Worship and State Rituals in Contemporary China: Fading Boundaries between Religious and Secular
The paper argues that the distinction between religious and secular realms of society is not as clear-cut in modern societies as it appears in theories of functional and institutional differentiation. The data used are mainly from China with a short excursion to the United States. The starting point...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | German |
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Diagonal-Verlag
2016
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Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft
Year: 2016, Volume: 24, Issue: 2, Pages: 127-152 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
China
/ State
/ Ritual
/ Secularism
/ Ancestor cult
/ The Religious
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism KBM Asia |
| Further subjects: | B
Secularity
ancestor worship
China
state rituals
Fuxi
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Verlag) |
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