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Everyday Religiosity in the State Sphere: Folk Beliefs and Practices in a Chinese State-run Orphanage

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dc.contributor.authorQian, Linliang
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-25T05:30:14Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.date.updated2020-12-27T07:38:15Z
dc.description.abstractThe religious sector in contemporary China is often portrayed as resisting or negotiating with an interventionist state in order to survive or protect its autonomy. This article, however, shows how it enters the state sphere and imbues the presumed state agents. By exploring folk beliefs and practices in a state-run orphanage (such as philanthropists’ activities, which they related to accumulation of karmic merits, childcare workers’ discourses, conduct associated with predestined relationships and baby ghosts, and institution officials’ preoccupation with palmistry, fortune telling and karmic retribution), and the impact of folk belief and practices on the working of the state apparatus, this study aims to enrich current scholarship by looking at state–religion interactions beyond the religious sphere and also reversing the image of Chinese religions as merely passive or reactive actors.en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn0920-203Xen_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/266333
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationsen_AU
dc.rights© 2016 The authorsen_AU
dc.sourceChina Informationen_AU
dc.subjectstate–religion relationsen_AU
dc.subjectpopular religionen_AU
dc.subjectfolk beliefsen_AU
dc.subjectorphanagesen_AU
dc.subjectwelfare institutionsen_AU
dc.titleEveryday Religiosity in the State Sphere: Folk Beliefs and Practices in a Chinese State-run Orphanageen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage98en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage81en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationQian, Linliang, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidQian, Linliang, u5529096en_AU
local.description.embargo2099-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor160104 - Social and Cultural Anthropologyen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu5557297xPUB134en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume30en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1177/0920203X15624676en_AU
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-84959278704
local.identifier.thomsonID000371657900004
local.publisher.urlhttps://journals.sagepub.com/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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