• DOI:10.1057/9780230235458_9
Corpus ID: 156179739

Recasting Religion and Ethnicity: Tourism and Socialism in Northern Sichuan, 1992–2005

@inproceedings{Sutton2009RecastingRA,
  title={Recasting Religion and Ethnicity: Tourism and Socialism in Northern Sichuan, 1992–2005},
  author={D. S. Sutton and X. Kang},
  year={2009}
}

D. S. Sutton, X. Kang

Published 2009

Political Science

In China, as in the cases examined elsewhere in this book, imperialism has shaped the idea of “religion” —though imperialism will require redefinition—and there were marked continuities in how religious faith was cast in postcolonial times.1 Like other contributors, we hypothesize that along with officials, locals have also been agents in deciding how “religion” was understood and practised. Using documentary and ethnographic evidence, our case study looks both at contemporary policy in the… CONTINUE READING

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