This quantity makes a speciality of the intersection of faith and media in China, bringing interdisciplinary ways to undergo at the position of faith within the lives of people and larger shifts inside of chinese language society in an more and more media-saturated atmosphere. With case stories concentrating on Mainland China (including Tibet), Hong Kong and Taiwan, in addition to diasporic chinese language groups outdoor Asia, participants ponder themes together with the historic and ideological roots of media representations of faith, expressions of spiritual religion on-line and in social media, country intervention (through either censorship and propaganda), non secular associations’ and groups’ use of varied varieties of media, and the function of the media in relatives among online/offline and local/diaspora groups. Chapters have interaction with the key spiritual traditions practiced in modern China, specifically Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, Christianity, Islam, and new spiritual routine.

Religion and the Media in China serves as a severe survey of case reports and indicates theoretical and methodological instruments for an intensive and systematic research of faith in smooth China. members to the quantity comprise historians of faith, sinologists, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, and media and communique students. The serious theories that participants strengthen round key techniques in religion—such as authority, community, church, ethics, pilgrimage, ritual, text, and practice—contribute to advancing the rising box of faith and media studies.