Rebecca Nedostup is Associate Professor of History at Boston College.
We live in a world shaped by secularism - the separation of numinous power from political authority and religion from the political, social, and economic realms of public life. Not only has progress toward modernity often been equated with secularization, but when religion is admitted into modernity, it has been distinguished from superstition. That such ideas are continually contested does not undercut their extraordinary influence. These divisions underpin this investigation of the role of religion in the construction of modernity and political power during the Nanjing Decade (1927-1937) of Nationalist rule in China. This book explores the modern recategorization of religious practices and people and examines how state power affected the religious lives and physical order of local communities. It also looks at how politicians conceived of their own ritual role in an era when authority was meant to derive from popular sovereignty. The claims of secular nationalism and mobilizational politics prompted the Nationalists to conceive of the world of religious association as a dangerous realm of 'superstition' that would destroy the nation. This is the first 'superstitious regime' of the book's title. It also convinced them that national feeling and faith in the party-state would replace those ties - the second 'superstitious regime'.
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It is an extremely difficult project using religious studies vocabulary and methodology to talk to historians. Theoretically inspiring. One of the major achievements of this book is to introduce the concept of "religion" to modern Chinese history. Really worth reading for students of social, cultural, and intellectual history.
评分2010年代最好的中國近代史著作
评分每次讀都有新的發現。secular modernity - nationalism to replace religion - 持續爭議
评分這本書的研究主題是宗教在中國民族主義者的南京政權(1927-1937)建設現代性和國傢政權中的角色。
评分非常喜歡的一本書,理解當代中國人民思想的第一課。
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