The article, delivered as a lecture, deciphers a government organized symposium on ＂folk beliefs＂ in which the speaker took part as an invitee. It is organized within a confined ＂ethnography of a conference,＂ but ...The article, delivered as a lecture, deciphers a government organized symposium on ＂folk beliefs＂ in which the speaker took part as an invitee. It is organized within a confined ＂ethnography of a conference,＂ but it engages constant interactions between the speaker＇s own reflections on the concepts of superstition, folk religion, and civil solidarity and recent mainland Chinese political and intellectual discussions concerning the ＂crisis of faith＂ （ or the counter-currents of atheism） , ＂religious revival,＂ ethnic isolation, and the expanding Christianity.展开更多
文摘The article, delivered as a lecture, deciphers a government organized symposium on ＂folk beliefs＂ in which the speaker took part as an invitee. It is organized within a confined ＂ethnography of a conference,＂ but it engages constant interactions between the speaker＇s own reflections on the concepts of superstition, folk religion, and civil solidarity and recent mainland Chinese political and intellectual discussions concerning the ＂crisis of faith＂ （ or the counter-currents of atheism） , ＂religious revival,＂ ethnic isolation, and the expanding Christianity.
