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={Adam Yuet Chau}, journal={Religion}, year={2011}, volume={41}, pages={547 - 568} }
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…
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