Modalities of doing religion and ritual polytropy: evaluating the religious market model from the perspective of Chinese religious history

@article{Chau2011ModalitiesOD,
  title={Modalities of doing religion and ritual polytropy: evaluating the religious market model from the perspective of Chinese religious history},
  author={A. Chau},
  journal={Religion},
  year={2011},
  volume={41},
  pages={547 - 568}
}
  • A. Chau
  • Published 2011
  • Sociology
  • Religion
This article examines the Chinese religious landscape through the lenses of ‘modalities of doing religion’ and ‘ritual polytropy’ and explores the implications such different conceptualisations might bring to the religious-market model. It argues that in Chinese religious culture one can identify five modalities of doing religion (the scriptural/discursive, the self-cultivational, the liturgical, the immediate-practical and the relational), each cutting across broader, conceptually aggregated… Expand
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