THE GLOBALIZATION OF CHINESE BUDDHISM: CLERGY AND DEVOTEE NETWORKS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Autor:	David L. Wank, Yoshiko Ashiwa
Rok vydání:	2005
Předmět:	Globalization General Arts and Humanities Political science Buddhism Kinship Economic history General Social Sciences Religious studies Chinese buddhism Southeast asian China Christianity Emigration
Zdroj:	International Journal of Asian Studies. 2:217-237
ISSN:	1479-5922 1479-5914
DOI:	10.1017/s1479591405000100
Popis:	The article examines the globalization of China's Buddhism. Such new modern values as science and progress, along with competition from Christianity stimulated a modern reform of Buddhism in China in the early twentieth century that was then carried abroad through emigration and other transnational movement. This paper examines the ongoing interactions among Buddhists across difference nation-state spaces that have constituted the spread of this Buddhism. We show how transnational networks of clergy and devotees are constituted through affiliations of kinship, loyalty and region. These, in turn, faciliate allocations of personnel, money, and legitimacy that have not only institutionalized Buddhism in Southeast Asian and North American overseas Chinese communities but also supported its revival in late twentieth century China.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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