Religion and ecological sustainability in China
"This book sheds light on the social imagination of nature and environment in contemporary China. It demonstrates how the urgent debate on how to create an ecologically sustainable future for the world's most populous country is shaped by its complex engagement with religious traditions, c...
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| Medienart: | Druck Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Veröffentlicht: |
London [u.a.]
Routledge
2014
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| In: |
Routledge contemporary China series (119)
Jahr: 2014 |
| Schriftenreihe/Zeitschrift: | Routledge contemporary China series
119 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
China
/ Religion
/ Religionsgeografie
/ Sozialökologie
/ Nachhaltigkeit
/ Ethik
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| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Religion
Social aspects
B Nature Social aspects (China) B Human Ecology China B Konferenzschrift 2012 (Peking) B Religion Social aspects China B Nature Social aspects China B Human Ecology B Sustainability (China) B Human Ecology (China) B Religion Social aspects (China) B Nature Social aspects B Sustainability China B SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General |
| Zusammenfassung: | "This book sheds light on the social imagination of nature and environment in contemporary China. It demonstrates how the urgent debate on how to create an ecologically sustainable future for the world's most populous country is shaped by its complex engagement with religious traditions, competing visions of modernity and globalization, and by engagement with minority nationalities who live in areas of outstanding natural beauty on China's physical and social margins"-- "This book sheds light on the social imagination of nature and environment in contemporary China. It demonstrates how the urgent debate on how to create an ecologically sustainable future for the world's most populous country is shaped by its complex engagement with religious traditions, competing visions of modernity and globalization, and by engagement with minority nationalities who live in areas of outstanding natural beauty on China's physical and social margins. The book develops a comprehensive understanding of contemporary China that goes beyond the tradition/ modernity dichotomy, and illuminates the diversity of narratives and worldviews that inform contemporary Chinese understandings of and engagements with nature and environment"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index First issued in paperback 2017 |
| ISBN: | 1138079286 |