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SUMMARY:Lunchbox Lecture: Temples and Teahouses: Changing Dimensions of Bu
 ddhist Sociality in Xi Jinping's China
DTSTART:20180601T080000Z
DTEND:20180601T100000Z
DTSTAMP:20260409T050015Z
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DESCRIPTION:Lunchbox Lecture in englischer Sprache präsentiert von Gareth
  Fisher (Syracuse\, NY)\n\nLay Buddhism is the fastest growing religious m
 ovement in China today. As such\, it is embroiled in a complicated dance w
 ith the communist\, atheist state which\, on the one hand\, seeks to promo
 te it as a source of China's cultural heritage\, but\, on the other\, is c
 oncerned about losing control of the religion's spread and influence. Base
 d on long term ethnographic research on lay Buddhist practice and social o
 rganization\, this presentation will explore how urban lay Buddhists in 20
 10s China are taking advantage of the state's openness to the spread of Bu
 ddhism as a form of cultural heritage to create spaces for the practice an
 d discussion of Buddhism in semi-public settings such as teahouses. In thi
 s way\, lay Buddhism is spreading even as the state exerts greater control
  over traditionally Buddhist religious spaces such as temples.
LOCATION:CERES-Palais\, Raum "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/de/events/lunchbox-lecture-von-gareth-fisher/
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