The Religious Question in Modern China

Still under the ancestors' shadow? Ancestor worship and family formation in contemporary China

“…This survey-based evidence echoes the large number of ethnographic studies that show a trend toward revitalization of traditional culture, including ancestor worship (e.g. Chau 2006;Dubois 2005;Goossaert and Palmer 2011;Grim 2008;Nedostup 2010;Yang 2011).…”

Buddhist Charities and China's Social Policy

“…Studies on the states' attempt to use temples to serve its own social programs in education and health care during the late Qing dynasty and the early Republican period reveals important differences between China and the situation experienced in the West that remain relevant today (Goossaert and Palmer, 2010;Nedostup, 2009;Goossaert, 2006;Duara, 1991). While the state tried to establish its authority in China in the early twentieth century, it did not have to deal with a single unified institution like the Catholic Church.…”

“…An important issue of contention was the availability of resources to deliver education, but ideology itself was also at stake, as explain Ji Zhe and the contributors to a special issue on the subject in the journal Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident (2011). Hence, when the republican and the socialist regimes in China sought to spread education to the population, they decided to harness the material resources of religious institutions to meet their objectives, seizing their land and property in an attempt to turn temples into schools (Goossaert and Palmer, 2010;Ashiwa, 2009: 52-55;Nedostup, 2009;Goossaert, 2006;Duara, 1991).…”

Global Religious Changes and Civil Life in Two Chinese Societies: A Comparison of Jiangsu and Taiwan

“…Several studies have documented this process on the mainland during the Republican period (Goossaert and Palmer 2011;Nedostup 2010). An example from the Taiwanese town of Lukang (鹿港) shows the same process as it happened under colonial rule.…”