Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Yang, Fenggang

Titel

What about China? Religious Vitality in the Most Secular and Rapidly Modernizing Society

Ist Teil von

• Sociology of religion, 2014-12, Vol.75 (4), p.564-578

Ort / Verlag

Washington: Oxford University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

Free E-Journal (出版社公開部分のみ）

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Through a biographical and historical account of religious change in China, this article first offers a personal observation of life in a society without religion. In the last three decades or so, however, un-beknown to most sociologists in China and the West, a quiet spiritual revolution has swept the vast land. Contemporary China is indeed a fertile field for sociologists to examine the social importance of religion in the modern world. His scholarly research on religion has been driven both by personal curiosity and a sense of social responsibility. The author explains what questions have propelled his empirical research and theoretical development. Constructively engaged with both classic and contemporary sociologists, the author calls for going beyond national boundaries and transcend various forms of parochialism in their social scientific endeavor.