{"product_id":"reenchanting-modernity-9781478008279","title":"Reenchanting Modernity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMayfair Yang examines the reemergence of religious life and ritual after decades of enforced secularized life in the coastal city of Wenzhou, showing how local practices of popular religion, Daoism, and Buddhism influence economic development and the structure of civil society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Mayfair Yang's wonderful ethnography reveals an alternative ‘ritual economy’ under the dizzying churn of market relations in China. It is attuned to giving, reciprocity, and the materialization of a social and spiritual life. While committed to wealth-making, the people of Wenzhou are by the same token committed to the health of their communal lives.” -- Prasenjit Duara, Duke University\u003cbr\u003e“Mayfair Yang's compelling account of the re-enchantment of everyday life in Wenzhou, China, reveals lines of flight through which re-ritualization reworks capitalist accumulation to produce new communal relations. A must-read for anyone interested in alternative possibilities for China's future.” -- Kenneth Dean, Raffles Professor of Humanities, National University of Singapore\u003cbr\u003e\"An engaging, diachronic portrayal of recent religious developments… I strongly recommend it to readers interested in these topics, and I would also recommend sections of it for certain graduate and advanced undergraduate classes on Buddhism.\" -- Douglas Gildow * H-Buddhism, H-Net Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRe-enchanting Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e clearly deserves recognition for its presentation of salient ethnographic data combined with innovated inquires, all of which calls our attention to the resilience of Chinese religious beliefs and practices while adapting to the challenges of the modern era. . . . Yang's findings should inspire future generations of scholars to undertake further ethnographic research on this vitally important topic.\" -- Paul R. Katz * Review of Religion and Chinese Society *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRe-enchanting Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e is a terrific study of the relationship between religion, state, and civil society in post-Mao China. . . . A must-read.\" -- Jules Zhao Liu * China Review International *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRe-enchanting Modernity \u003c\/i\u003epresents a very intriguing and in-depth ethnographic investigation of religion and ritual in modern China.\" -- Yujie Zhu * Journal of Anthropological Research *\u003cbr\u003e\"Yang’s book is an excellent contribution to a growing body of scholarship examining post-Mao China’s religious resurgences and the broader conditions under which modernity brings about the (re)production of new and older forms of enchantment. I also find the book highly relevant and refreshing in providing insight into some of the complexities of rural China’s emerging religious civil society in ways that defy and push back against the current resurgence of Orientalism in the 'liberal' West with respect to 'illiberal' China.\" -- Micah F. Morton * Anthropos *\u003cbr\u003e\"This book contains some of the most compelling analyses of Chinese society I have read, and it will continue to nourish future debates. As Yang powerfully suggests, pluralized discussions of civil society and the ritual economy may help bring alternative visions of society and economy into being.\" -- Jiazhi Fengjiang * Pacific Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. From \"Superstition\" to \"People's Customs\": An Ethnographic Discovery of Key Questions in Wenzhou  1\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Wenzhou Model of Rural Development in China  32\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Religious Diversity and Syncretism in Wenzhou  49\u003cbr\u003e 3. Popular Registry: Deities, Spirit Mediums, Ancestors, Ghosts, and Fengshui  51\u003cbr\u003e 4. Daoism: Ancient Gods, Boisterous Rituals, and Hearthside Priests  92\u003cbr\u003e 5. Buddhist Religiosity: The Wheel of Life, Death, and Rebirth  125\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Religious Civil Society and Ritual Economy  159\u003cbr\u003e 6. Sprouts of Religious Civil Society: Temples, Localities, and Communities  161\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Rebirth of the Lineage: Creative Unfolding and Multiplicity of Forms  190\u003cbr\u003e 8. Of Mothers, Goddesses, and Bodhisattvas: Patriarchal Structures and Women's Religious Agency  224\u003cbr\u003e 9. Broadening and Pluralizing the Modern Category of \"Civil Society\": A Friendly Quarrel with Durkhelm  257\u003cbr\u003e 10. What's Missing in the Wenzhou Model?  The \"Ritual Economy\" and \"Wasting of Wealth\"  279\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion  315\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A. Chronology of Chinese Dynasties  321\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B. Notes on Currency, Weights, Measurements, and Chinese Romanization and Pronunciation  323\u003cbr\u003e Appendix C. Religious Sites Visited in Wenzhou by Author, 1990–2016  325\u003cbr\u003e Notes  331\u003cbr\u003e Glossary  335\u003cbr\u003e References  345\u003cbr\u003e Index  365","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408983335255,"sku":"9781478008279","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478008279.jpg?v=1730504963","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reenchanting-modernity-9781478008279","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}