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Title:
Shanghai sacred : the religious landscape of a global city / Benoît Vermander, Liz Hingley, Liang Zhang ; photographs by Liz Hingley.
Author:
Vermander, Benoît, 1960- author.

Hingley, Liz, author, photographer.

Zhang, Liang, 1980- author.
Publication Information:
Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]
Call Number:
BL1803 .V475 2018
Abstract:
Shanghai, a dynamic world metropolis, is home to a multitude of religions, from Buddhism and Islam, to Christianity and Baha'ism, to Hinduism and Daoism, and many more. In this city of 24 million inhabitants, new religious groups and older faiths together claim and reclaim spiritual space. Shanghai Sacred explores the spaces, rituals, and daily practices that make up the religious landscape of the city, offering a new paradigm for the study of Chinese spirituality that reflects the global trends shaping Chinese culture and civil society. Based on years of fieldwork, incorporating both comparative and methodological perspectives, Shanghai Sacred demonstrates how religions are lived, constructed, and thus inscribed into the social imaginary of the metropolis. Evocative photographs by Liz Hingley enrich and interact with the narrative, making the book an innovative contribution to religious visual ethnography Book jacket.
ISBN:
9780295741680

9780295741673
Physical Description:
xix, 255 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
Contents:
Introduction : Sacredness and the city -- Mapping Shanghai -- Calendars and landmarks -- The wall and the door -- A shrine of one's own -- Religious waterways -- The sacred tapestry -- Appendix: Fieldwork sites.
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