TY  - BOOK
AU  - Feuchtwang,Stephan
AU  - Wang,Mingming
TI  - Grassroots charisma : : four local leaders in China / 
SN  - 0415244188
PY  - 2001///
CY  - London, New York : 
PB  - Routledge, 
KW  - Religion and politics
KW  - China
KW  - Nichtregierungs-Organisation
KW  - Grassroots
KW  - Religion
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [194]-199) and index; Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction 1 -- Gender and religious authority in China 2 -- Mingming and Stephan 3 -- The structure and content of the book 5 -- States and local histories 6 -- Retelling other people's stories 7 -- The authority of religion and its politics 8 -- 2 Charisma 10 -- Max Weber on charisma 11 -- Two anthropologists on Western charisma 13 -- Other traditions of charisma 15 -- The juncture of times and historicity 20 -- PART I 23 -- Meifa -- 3 Meifa and its festivals in southern Fujian 25 -- Fa Zhu Gong 25 -- Reconstructing the history of Meifa 29 -- An annual cycle and its wider world 30 -- The economy and organisation offestival ritual 34 -- Twentieth-century adaptations 35 -- A local history 40 -- 4 Revolution, fortune and respect: Darkface (Wansheng) 42 -- The pivot of Wansheng's story 43 -- Being a good cadre 47 -- The Cultural Revolution and the cult of Mao 53 -- The turningpoint 56 -- Towards rehabilitation 58 -- 5 Revitalisation of Meifa's identity 63 -- Authority andforce 73 -- On the language of respect 75 -- PART II 79 -- Shiding -- 6 Shiding and its temple 81 -- The General 83 -- Interlude 85 -- The Immortal 88 -- The tension between temple management and public festivals 90 -- A place in its own authority 93 -- 7 Writing and inspiration: the story of Dark Wood (Wumu) 94 -- Spirit-writing 95 -- A career of charisma 96 The ritual of writing 99 -- Canonisation 103 -- Inspiration with many authors 107 -- One and many dictators 112 -- Creation in afield of intentions 113 -- 8 The location of face: Lin Qingbiao 117 -- Custom reform 118 -- Post-war revitalisation 119 -- A rough tongue and an upright character 120 -- Face, place and story 122 -- 9 Reform and refinement: Gao Bineng 125 -- A good official 125 -- Gao Bineng's version of the Immortal 128 -- A change of authority 129 A new face for Shiding 136 -- Politics, religion andpersonal authority 140 -- 10 Gao Bineng at ninety: charismatic authority and the new -- politics of Taiwan 142 -- Self-composition 142 -- The politics of Taiwan and its martyrs 145 -- A politics of culture and community 148 -- Authority and respect in Shiding 153 -- PART III -- Conclusions 157 -- 11 Charisma in Shiding and Meifa 159 -- Shiding and Meifa as places in politics of culture 161 -- 12 The dispersal of charisma under a national canopy 165 -- A final word 172 -- Notes 174 -- References 194 -- Index 200
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