Religious and Ethnic Revival in a Chinese Minority - 9780367590468

Taylor & Francis

Religious and Ethnic Revival in a Chinese MinorityThe Bai People of Southwest China\nAuthor(s): Liang Yongjia\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367590468, 978-0367590468\nSynopsis\nThis book is based on anthropological fieldwork among the Bai, an ethnic minority with a population of two million in Dali, southwest China. It explores the religious and ethnic revival in the last two decades against a historical background. It explains why and how religions and ethnic identity are revived in contemporary China, with the revived analytical concept of \""alterity\"", which suggests a world beyond here and now. The book focuses on the particular institutions and ritual technologies that seek for access to the invisible, transcendental otherboth spatial and temporal. It covers a variety of topics, including pre-modern kingship, modern utopia, religious alterity, ethnic identity, religious associations, the Intangible Cultu.