WPS 235 The Philanthropic Turn of Religions in Post-Mao China: An Interactional Perspective

Religious philanthropy has become a significant force in contemporary China. This essay explores the interactions between policy toward religious philanthropy and religious groups that have undergone significant changes since their philanthropic involvement. Religious groups (sometimes under the name of the leader) have been providing social services since the state’s “opening-up” policies in the early 1980s. …

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WPS 234 The Practice of Tree Worship and the Territorial Production of Urban Space in the Indian Neighbourhood

In urban India, there are religious practices intersecting with the process of urbanisation at various levels. This paper looks at the practice of tree worship which continues to be a part of the everyday lives of the people. Specifically, it looks at how the Peepul tree (Ficus Religiosa) shrine with its serpent stones and the …

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Asian Population Studies (Vol. 11 No. 1)

Asian Population Studies is the first international population journal to focus exclusively on population issues in Asia. The journal publishes original research on matters related to population in this large, complex and rapidly changing region, and welcomes substantive empirical analyses, theoretical works, applied research and contributions to methodology. Topics covered include all branches of population …

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The Order of Places: Translocal Practices of the Huizhou Merchants in Late Imperial China

There were over a thousand counties and prefectures in late imperial China; each loomed large in the hearts and minds of the local natives, and had a history of its own. The Order of Places tells a story of how these places were ordered by the long-lived imperial state, and then re-ordered during the sixteenth …

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GeoForum – Special Issue: Diaspora Strategies: Critical Perspectives and New Directions (59)

As more countries acknowledge the potential resources represented by their emigrant populations, the diaspora strategies of migrant sending countries are gaining policy and academic attention internationally. ‘Diaspora strategies’ describe initiatives aimed at mobilising emigrants for the purposes of economic development and/or nation building. This special issue in Geoforum identifies new research directions for the study …

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WPS 233 Epistemological Experiments and Empirical Philosophy in Cross-Cultural Contexts

In recent years we have seen a veritable explosion in philosophical and psychological studies of epistemic intuitions. Many of these analyse whether intuitions vary between ‘Asian’ and ‘Western’ people. In this paper I review research in experimental epistemology and connect it to other studies in cross-cultural epistemology. I suggest that debates in the former have …

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Demonic Warfare: Daoism, Territorial Networks, and the History of a Ming Novel

Revealing the fundamental continuities that exist between vernacular fiction and exorcist, martial rituals in the vernacular language, Mark Meulenbeld argues that a specific type of Daoist exorcism helped shape vernacular novels in the late Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Focusing on the once famous novel Fengshen yanyi (“Canonization of the Gods”), the author maps out the general …

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