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By Tim Oakes,Donald S. Sutton,Kenneth Dean,Brian R. Dott,Xiaofei Kang,Charlene Makley,Susan K. McCarthy,Charles F. McKhann,Yu Luo Rioux,Marina Svensson,Rubie Watson

ISBN-10: 1442205067

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By offering a different viewpoint on China's altering courting with faith, this groundbreaking booklet explores the function the chinese language kingdom maintains to play in non secular revival this day. over the last numerous many years, China has skilled a swift growth of non secular areas and actions. extra lately, a growing to be middle-class city society has fueled an upsurge in chinese language family tourism. Faiths on Display demanding situations the typical separation of non secular and vacationer actions, displaying how those practices overlap and mix jointly. a bunch of major students explores the not likely interplay among those exuberant phenomena, discovering a shockingly transparent lens by which to view a speedily remodeling society. Even the main informal observer is struck by way of the chinese language rediscovery of conventional tradition, relatively at revived spiritual gala's and pilgrimages in suburbs, rural parts, and at China's margins the place non secular practices of ethnic minorities allure specific vacationer cognizance.

A set of attention-grabbing case stories indicates how country businesses are aiding revive "sacred areas" as exploitable websites for tourism improvement and profit iteration. whereas this can seem to be an easy collision of chinese language culture with modernization, the individuals argue that the result of combining faith and tourism supply vital insights not just into the perform of faith and the increase of "leisure tradition" in modern China, but in addition into the altering and contested nature of country governance. The rules of an authoritarian, modernizing nation evidently impression either faith and tourism, yet spiritual practices, the ebook sincerely illustrates, are inclined to slip out of kingdom regulate, and vacationer tastes push improvement into instructions now not expected or welcomed via the state.

Contributions by: Kenneth Dean, Brian R. Dott, Xiaofei Kang, Charlene Makley, Susan okay. McCarthy, Charles F. McKhann, Tim Oakes, Yu Luo Rioux, Donald S. Sutton, Marina Svensson, and Rubie Watson.

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