Secularity and Urban Gentrification: An Spatial Analysis of Downtown Buddhist Temples in Shanghai

This essay examines the relationship between the processes of urban change and the politically and commercially constructed nature of Buddhism since 1978 in Shanghai. After examining data from 120 temples together with ethnographic research in two downtown temples, the author finds two key changes i...

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Main Author: Huang, Weishan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publications 2023
In: Space and Culture
Year: 2023, Volume: 26, Issue: 2, Pages: 229-241
Further subjects:B niche-switching
B Gentrification
B post-Mao China
B urban Buddhism
B religious repackaging
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