Superstitious Regimes: Religion and the Politics of Chinese Modernity

by Rebecca Nedostup

We live in a world shaped by secularism--the separation of numinous power from political authority and religion from the political, social, and economic realms of public life. Not only has progress toward modernity often been equated with secularization, but when religion is admitted into modernity, it has been distinguished from superstition. That such ideas are continually contested does not undercut their extraordinary influence.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674035992
• ISBN13: 9780674035997
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"