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Cultural and Social Anthropology (1)
Popular
Religion in China 
From: London School of
Economics and Political Science
Religious life in China is complex,
personal and political. The main textual traditions associated with
Chinese civilisation are those of Buddhism, Daoism and the ancestral
calendrical rituals written by court officials and centrally approved
scholars: a tradition derived from Confucianism. However, popular
religion--that is the household cult, local rituals and
supplications--is what has dominated the lives of many ordinary people.
In this seminar Stephan Feuchtwang, reader in Anthropology at the London
School of Economics and Political Science, examines popular religion in
China from the importance of textual traditions to the elaborate and
spectacular rituals, festivals and temples.
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