I argue here that, secularization and state control aside, there has been in recent years a definite resurgence of interest in Buddhist practice in China (Fisher, 2014; Tarocco 2011, 2017). While other have examined its vital role in the production of national modernity and the institutions of the state, my analysis primarily tracks the work Buddhism performs within the everyday realms of media and technology. In looking at how Chuanxi’s charisma is at works in the intimate connections between Buddhism and technology at Huiri Temple, I follow David Palmer definition of charisma as a “relationship based on the expectation of the extraordinary, which stimulates and empowers collective behaviour” (Palmer 2008: 70). Although the mediation of re...
This article is a case study of a lay Buddhist community that employs a business model called “livin...
The pandemic offers an opportunity to reflect on the place that spirituality has in contemporary lif...
The last few decades have seen the rise of grassroots groups of lay Buddhists in post-Mao China who,...
I argue here that, secularization and state control aside, there has been in recent years a definite...
The study of the communicative fabric of the social media life of elite clerics sheds light on the r...
With the advent of television in the twentieth century, religious institutions found a new medium wi...
This volume focuses on the intersection of religion and the media in China, bringing interdisciplina...
This volume focuses on the intersection of religion and the media in China, bringing interdisciplina...
The development of digital technologies and the Internet makes the information increasingly more acc...
As the spiritual cachet of Tibetan Buddhism has surged among contemporary PRC-based Han Chinese audi...
In an era bombarded by information society has become more and more dependent on mass media communic...
This thesis contends that the encounter between Chinese Buddhism and the periodical publication indu...
What we saw in the last twenty years in Taiwan was a result of a long history in religion and media ...
This paper explicates ontological and philosophical underpinnings of Tibetan Buddhism and its releva...
For many Chinese speakers in China and elsewhere, experiencing or connecting with matters of religio...
This article is a case study of a lay Buddhist community that employs a business model called “livin...
The pandemic offers an opportunity to reflect on the place that spirituality has in contemporary lif...
The last few decades have seen the rise of grassroots groups of lay Buddhists in post-Mao China who,...
I argue here that, secularization and state control aside, there has been in recent years a definite...
The study of the communicative fabric of the social media life of elite clerics sheds light on the r...
With the advent of television in the twentieth century, religious institutions found a new medium wi...
This volume focuses on the intersection of religion and the media in China, bringing interdisciplina...
This volume focuses on the intersection of religion and the media in China, bringing interdisciplina...
The development of digital technologies and the Internet makes the information increasingly more acc...
As the spiritual cachet of Tibetan Buddhism has surged among contemporary PRC-based Han Chinese audi...
In an era bombarded by information society has become more and more dependent on mass media communic...
This thesis contends that the encounter between Chinese Buddhism and the periodical publication indu...
What we saw in the last twenty years in Taiwan was a result of a long history in religion and media ...
This paper explicates ontological and philosophical underpinnings of Tibetan Buddhism and its releva...
For many Chinese speakers in China and elsewhere, experiencing or connecting with matters of religio...
This article is a case study of a lay Buddhist community that employs a business model called “livin...
The pandemic offers an opportunity to reflect on the place that spirituality has in contemporary lif...
The last few decades have seen the rise of grassroots groups of lay Buddhists in post-Mao China who,...