Rostislav Berezkin 白若思
National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies.
Society and religion in China
《中国的社会与宗教》
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上课地点：光华楼西主楼2812
上课时间：周一上午3-5节 ，H2106A
1. Course description
The aim of the course is to introduce the major studies and modern tendencies in the area of Chinese society and religion. It describes the studies of Chinese popular religions from the perspective of sociology, ethnology, anthropology, folklore and other initially Western disciplines. Many Western and Chinese scholars treated religion primarily as a social institution, so they analyzed the role of religious beliefs and practices in the state organization and the local society. The contents of this course include such topics as the definition of Chinese “state” and “popular religion”, the family life and organization of rural society; roles of Daoism and Buddhism in the Chinese history and in the life of local society; syncretic religions of the late imperial period; the role of temple festivals and pilgrimages; the links of ritual and theatre; city life; and the problems of changes in popular religion in the modernized rural and urban society. The course covers the time period from the antiquity (2nd-1st millenniums BCE) till the Republican period (1912-1949), but the emphasis is on the late imperial period: Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, though the course also deals with some recent developments in the social life. The emphasis is on Western works. The course is taught in English, but most materials for reading also are represented in Chinese translation.
本課程主要介绍关于中国地方社会与宗教关系的研究著作及最近的研究趋势。本課程讲述这种研究主要的题目，如家庭生活与礼仪；民间信仰与农村社会组织的关系；庙会与朝圣的社会功能；道教、佛教与地方社会；明清时期特殊民间教派与民众习俗、文化的关系；城市宗教活动；民间宗教的现代化过程等。探讨的时间为明、清两代以及民国时期为主。本课程的内容以西方研究成果为主，以便解释西方学者在这研究领域里的贡献；但是大部分课程阅读资料是西方著作的中文译文。
2. Requirements and grading principles:
1. Class attendance and participation – 40%
2. Written assignments – 60%
(1) Book review – 30%
The list of books provided (see bibliography no. 1 below), but books are not limited to this list
Volume: up to 5000 characters (in Chinese); up to 5 pages in English.
(2) Final paper (both Chinese and English are acceptable) – 30%
The contents of paper may be related to the student’s own research.
The proposed contents of paper: how Western theories and methods are used in the East Asian studies of Chinese religion? (for the selected East Asian works, see bibliography no. 2 below).
Or: in what way Western/Taiwanese/mainland research on Chinese popular religion/folk beliefs is important for my (student’s) own research project?
Volume: up to 5000 characters (in Chinese); up to 5 pages in English.
Students have oral presentations in class for both assignments (see schedule).
3. Prescribed readings (general):
C.K.Yang, Religion in Chinese Society: a Study of Contemporary Social Functions of Religion and Some of their Historical Factors (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1961; rpt. Taipei: SMC publishing, 1994), Chin. translation: Yang Qingkun杨庆堃, Zhongguo shehui zhong de zongjiao: zongjiao de xiandai shehui gongneng yu qi lishi yinsu zhi yanjiu 中国社会中的宗教: 宗教的现代社会功能与其历史因素之硏究, Fan Lizhu范丽珠et al., transl. (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin chubanshe, 2007).
Edward L. Davis. Society and the supernatural in Song China. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001.
Prasenjit Duara, Culture, Power, and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988). Ch. transl.: Du Zanqi 杜赞奇, Wen hua, quan li yu guo jia : 1900-1942 nian di Hua bei nong cun文化、权力与国家 : 1900-1942年的华北农村, Wang Fuming王福明, transl. (Nanjing: Jiangsu renmin chubanshe, 2008).
Adam Yuet Chau, Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.
Also:
Rostislav Berezkin, “From imperial metaphor to rebellious deities: the history and modern state of western studies of Chinese popular religion.” “从帝国比喻到不服从神灵：西方有关中国民间宗教研究概述” Sino-Platonic Papers 243 (2013.12): 1-35.
Readings are posted online at:
http://www.iahs.fudan.edu.cn/cn/courseware_id.asp?Class_id=70
4. Schedule
1st week: The contents and requirements of the course.
2nd week: History of the studies of the role of religious beliefs in Chinese society. Overview of major sources, methods, and results.
Read: Rostislav Berezkin, “From imperial metaphor to rebellious deities: the history and modern state of western studies of Chinese popular religion.” “从帝国比喻到不服从神灵：西方有关中国民间宗教研究概述” Sino-Platonic Papers 243 (2013.12): 1-35.
The first part of C.K.Yang, Religion in Chinese Society: a Study of Contemporary Social Functions of Religion and Some of their Historical Factors (Chapters 1-7).
3rd week: State, society, and religion in China: historical overview.
Read the second part of C.K.Yang, Religion in Chinese Society: a Study of Contemporary Social Functions of Religion and Some of their Historical Factors (Chapters 8-14).
4th week: Religious beliefs and practices in Chinese antiquity.
Mu-chou Poo, In Search of Personal Welfare: A View of Ancient Chinese Religion (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998); Chin. version: Pu Muzhou 蒲慕州, Zhuixun yiji zhi fu: Zhongguo gudai de xinyang shijie 追尋一己之福 : 中國古代的信仰世界 (Taibei: Yunchen wenhua, 1995); chapters 1-6; for those, who are interested, -- the whole book.
During the break for the National Day (October 1), read Edward L. Davis. Society and the supernatural in Song China. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001.
5th week: Daoism in Chinese society.
Edward L. Davis. Society and the supernatural in Song China. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001.
For those who are interested, also Schipper, Kristofer, “Vernacular and Classical Ritual in Taoism” Journal of Asian Studies 45,1 (1985): 21-57.
6th week: Buddhism in Chinese society.
Reading: the book for the book report
7th week: Family rituals.
Read Arthur P. Wolf, “Gods, ghosts and ancestors,” in Arthur P. Wolf, ed., Religion and Ritual in Chinese Society (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1974): 131-182.
8th week: Students’ reports on the books.
9th week: The problem of religious orthodoxy in late imperial China: temples, cults, rituals, and society organization.
Read Prasenjit Duara, Culture, Power, and the State: Rural North China (Chapters 1-4), interested students read the whole book.
James L. Watson, “Rites of beliefs? The construction of a unified culture in late imperial China” in Lowell Dittmer and Samuel S. Kim, ed., China's Quest for National Identity (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993): 80-103.
10th week: Heterodoxy: sects of the late imperial period
Read the first part of Adam Yuet Chau, Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China (Chapters 1-6).
11th week: Temple festivals and pilgrimages
Read the second part of Adam Yuet Chau, Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China (Chapters 7-12).
12th week: Religious activities and the city life
Read Kristofer M. Schipper, “Neighborhood cult associations in traditional Tainan” in G. William Skinner, ed., The City in Late Imperial China (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1977): 651-678; Chin. transl.: Shi Jianya施坚雅, ed., Zhonghua diguo wanqi de chengshi中华帝国晚期的城市, Ye Guangting叶光庭et al., transl. (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 2000).
13th week: Ritual, visual arts, and theatre in late imperial China
14th week: Reforms of Chinese religion and traditional society in modern period
Read: Rostislav Berezkin, “On the Survival of the Traditional Ritualized Performance Art in Modern China: A Case of Telling Scriptures by Yu Dingjun in Shanghu Town Area of Changshu City in Jiangsu Province,” Minsu quyi 民俗曲藝 (Journal of Chinese Theatre and Folklore) 181 (2013.9): 103-156.
15th week: Students’ reports.
5. Classified bibliography for book reports and final papers:
1- General
John Lagerwey, ed., Religion and Chinese Society, 2 vols. (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press; Paris: École française d'Extrême-Orient, 2004).
Fenggang Yang and Graeme Lang, eds. Social scientific studies of religion in China : methodology, theories, and findings. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2011 (electronic resource at Fudan).
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J J.M. de Groot. Sectarianism and Religious Persecution in China: a Page in the History of Religions (Amsterdam, J. Miller, 1903-04).
Gary Seaman, Temple Organization in a Chinese Village (Taipei: Chinese Association for Folklore; Orient Cultural Service, 1978).
3rd – 4th weeks: Chinese state, society, and religion; ancient period of Chinese history
John Lagerwey, China, a Religious State. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2010.
Richard Von Glahn, The Sinister Way: The Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004).
Zhu Haibin 朱海滨, Jisi zhengce yu minjian xinyang bianqian: Jinshi Zhejiang minjian xinyang yanjiu 祭祀政策與民間信仰變遷: 近世浙江民間信仰研究 (Shanghai: Fudan daxue, 2008).
5th week: Daoism and society.
Robert Hymes, Way and Byway: Taoism, Local Religion, and Models of Divinity in Sung and Modern China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), 114-146, Ch. transl.: Han Mingshi韩明士. Dao yu shu dao: Song dai yilai de daojiao, minjian xinyang he shenling moshi 道与庶道 : 宋代以来的道教、民间信仰和神灵模式, Pi Qingsheng皮庆生, transl., (Nanjing: Jiangsu renmin chubanshe, 2007).
Michel Strickmann; edited by Bernard Faure. Chinese Magical Medicine. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2002.
Kenneth Dean, Taoist Ritual and Popular Cults in Southeast China (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993).
Richard G. Wang , The Ming prince and Daoism : institutional patronage of an elite. New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
6th week: Buddhism and society.
John Kieschnick. The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.
John Kieschnick. The Eminent Monk : Buddhist Ideals in Medieval Chinese Hagiography. Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 1997.
Chün-fang Yu, Kuan-yin: The Chinese Transformation of Avalokiteśvara (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001).
Christine Mollier. Buddhism and Taoism face to face: scripture, ritual, and iconographic exchange in medieval China. Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 2008.