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RL 352 50: Religions of China
Spring Term 2000: Thursday, 6:30 - 8:45 pm, JH 216

Instructor: Eriberto P. Lozada Jr.
Office: Anthropology Program, JH 349A
Office Hours: M, W, R, F 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Telephone: 940-9270
email: elozada@butler.edu
homepage: http://trevor.butler.edu/~elozada

This course is a seminar on religions in contemporary China. We will be examining specific Chinese ritual practices such as marriage and funerals from an anthropological perspective, focusing on particular ethnographic descriptions of religious practices. As a result, the class readings will emphasize the social, historical, and political contexts of Chinese religious traditions.

Throughout the seminar, we will be exploring the issue of whether or not there is such a thing as a Chinese religion. What is Chinese about a religion practiced in China? Is there a system of Chinese beliefs and ritual practices? Is there an identifiable set of practices or social structure that we can call Confucianism? Is Christianity a Chinese religion?

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  Dept. of Anthropology
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