Shanghai Sacred The Religious Landscape of a Global City / Benoît Vermander, Liz Hingley, and Liang Zhang ; photographs by Liz Hingley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vermander, Benoît, 1960- Author.

Zhang, Liang, Author.

Hingley, Liz 1985- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion.

China--Shanghai.

Shanghai (China)--Religion.

Shanghai (China).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 pages)

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2018

Summary:

Shanghai, a dynamic world metropolis, is home to a multitude of religions, from Buddhism and Islam, to Christianity and Baha'ism, to Hinduism and Daoism, and many more. In this city of 24 million inhabitants, new religious groups and older faiths together claim and reclaim spiritual space. Shanghai Sacred explores the spaces, rituals, and daily practices that make up the religious landscape of the city, offering a new paradigm for the study of Chinese spirituality that reflects the global trends shaping Chinese culture and civil society. Based on years of fieldwork, incorporating both comparative and methodological perspectives, Shanghai Sacred demonstrates how religions are lived, constructed, and thus inscribed into the social imaginary of the metropolis. Evocative photographs by Liz Hingley enrich and interact with the narrative, making the book an innovative contribution to religious visual ethnography.

Contents:

A shrine of one's own

The wall and the door

Sacredness and the city

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295741697

0295741694

OCLC:

1020301742