Multiple Liminalities of Lay Buddhism in Contemporary China: Modalities, Material Culture, and Politics

Kai Shmushko

doi:10.24415/9789400604940

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Edition: 1/2024
Copyright Year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-90-8728-456-5
ISBN-Online: 978-94-006-0494-0
Publisher: Leiden University Press, Leiden
Language: English
Pages: 300
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. List of Figures No access
3. Acknowledgements No access
4. List of Abbreviations No access
1. Hypothesis and Research Questions No access
2. Methodology and Research Strategy No access
1. Positioning No access
2. Buddhism under the Chinese Communist Party No access
3. A Buddhist Revival in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries No access
4. PRC Policy Towards Religion and its Influence on Buddhism No access
5. Laying the Groundwork: Lay Buddhism No access
6. Multiple Liminalities No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Tibetan Buddhism in Modern China No access
3. Some Characteristics of Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism No access
4. Between the Tibetan Plateau and Residential Shanghai No access
5. A Layered Community Modality No access
6. Practice and Orthopraxy No access
7. The Birth of The Living Hall Model No access
8. Regulations and Discourse on Religion in the Xi Jinping Era No access
9. Commodification, Enchantment, and Material Culture No access
10. Between Religious Commodities and Cultural Elements No access
11. Conclusion No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Practice and Community During the Pandemic—The Pure Light Valley Retreat No access
3. COVID‑19‑related Ritual Economy No access
4. The New Normal or the Old Normal Accelerated? No access
5. Religious Tourism in Tibet No access
6. Conclusion: Resilience, Adaptation, and Permanent Liminality No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Urbanization and Shenzhen No access
3. The Spatiality of Buddhism in Shenzhen No access
4. Hongfa Temple—an Institutionalized Space for Lay Buddhism No access
5. Modern Orthopraxy—Accelerated Merit Economy No access
6. Lay Practices—Bottom Up or Top Down? No access
7. Conclusion—Clean Worship? No access
1. Urban Villages in Shenzhen No access
2. Arriving in Wutong No access
3. Wutong—an Art Village No access
4. Grassroot Buddhist Groups in Wutong No access
5. Ms. Li’s Fermented Lemons No access
6. The Ru Family Tea–Guesthouse – Expanding the Space of Practice No access
7. Nun Niangu’s Buddhist Center No access
8. Between Religion and Culture No access
9. Conclusion—Liminoid and the Future of Buddhism in Wutong No access
1. Introduction: The Digital Turn of Religion in Asia and Beyond No access
2. The Context of the PRC No access
3. Regulations Regarding Religion on the Internet No access
4. The Digital Turn and Liminality No access
5. The Little Things—Recitation as Ritual Technology No access
6. Count Your Prayers! Together No access
7. Cybersanghas No access
8. Embedding in The Little Red Book No access
9. “Inspire Lives” No access
10. Esthetics, Symbols, and Performativity No access
11. Visuals and Stories No access
12. Micro-Practices of Belonging No access
13. Tea Drinking Going “Viral”—Tea Practices and Symbolism Replicated No access
14. The Online Presence of Tea Rooms No access
15. Impact of Measures and Regulations—2017–2022 No access
16. Conclusion No access
1. Introduction No access
2. The Material Turn No access
3. Modern Buddhism in Taiwan No access
4. Taiwan and China No access
5. Tea and the “Four Great Mountains” of Taiwan No access
6. Tzu Chi’s “Four Jing” Tea No access
7. Buddhist Practice in the Shanwaishan Organic Tea Farm—Setting No access
8. Community Structure No access
9. Combining Scripture Reading in the Daily Farm Routine No access
10. Tea as More Than a Material No access
11. The Practice of Tea—From the Ground Up No access
12. Lay Agency and Skillful Means No access
13. Conclusion—Between Science and Supernatural Power No access
1. Destabilization of Religious Structures No access
2. Cyberspace as a Locus for Lay Buddhism No access
3. Commodification, Commercialization, Materialization No access
4. Multiple Liminalities—Beyond Positive and Negative No access
Bibliography No access Pages 275 - 292
Index No access Pages 293 - 298