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THE RELIGIOUS NARRATIVE OF
MODERN CHINA
Updating the Local Past &
Embracing Global Patterns
Stefania TravagninFaculty of Theology and Religious Studies
Beginnings…What & Why & How
• BEGINNING– Chinese Studies– Study of Religion– Research on 20th-21st century China and
Taiwan
• REFLECTIONS–Modernity vs. Tradition/Classic
Civilization– Present vs. Past– Outer vs. Inner Factors
…ObjectivesWhat & Why & How
• Application:– Tradition WITHIN Modernity– Past WITHIN the Present– Inner-Chinese MERGING WITH Outer-Western
• Results:– Revising Historic Method
• From DYNASTY-HISTORY to NETWORK-BASED HISTORY
– Alternative Approaches to Religious and Cultural Diversity• The ‘East Asian Model’
What now?
• Suggestions for the study of religion in modern China (from a local and global perspective)– Alternative research perspectives–Updating critical concepts and
methods– Chinese studies in constructive
dialogue with scholarship/scholars on non-Western societies
– China as a global player