Benoit Vermander is professor of religious studies and director of the Xu-Ricci Dialogue Institute at Fudan University, Shanghai. He is the author of Corporate Social Responsibility in China: A Vision, an Assessment and a Blueprint. Photographer and anthropologist Liz Hingley was a visiting scholar at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (2013–2016). She is currently artist-in-residence at the Human Geography Department, University College London, and an honorary research fellow in the Department of Philosophy and Theology at the University of Birmingham. Liang Zhang is research assistant in the Institute of Religious Studies at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.
"This empirically rich and analytically engaging book shows that
Shanghai is not only a cosmopolitan city where East meets West in
China, or a thriving metropolis that positions itself as both the
home of the revolutionary movement and the cornerstone of Chinese
‘modernity,’ but that it is also an important global center in
terms of cultural and religious diversity."
*Reading Religion*
"This commendable book, based on solid fieldwork, paints a
comprehensive and vivid picture about the dynamic of people’s
religious/spiritual lives in Shanghai . . . [and] opens a window
for those who are eager to better understand the “lived” status of
Chinese religions and spiritual practice."
*China Review International*
"Shanghai Sacred is the only book that attempts an all-inclusive
survey of religious practices in a Chinese city (and indeed any
contemporary Chinese locale), and in this the book succeeds
admirably. . . . This informative book will appeal to scholars in
religious studies, Chinese Studies, urban studies, and ‘Shanghai
Studies.’"
*Asian Ethnology*
"This monograph-length account of Shanghai’s religious landscape is
a welcome addition to the expanding literature on relgious practice
in the People’s Republic of China."
*Review of Religion and Chinese Society*
"Shanghai Sacred’s priveliging of a visual approach, along with its
close collaborative production, meticulous investigation, and
fruitful conversations have resulted in an incisive, nuanced, and
multifaceted analysis of the sacred milieu of the global metropolis
that is Shanghai. . . . This book is an important piece of
scholarship which provides an illuminating insight into ‘Shanghai
sacred’ and will be of interest not only to those wishing to better
understand the Chinese context but those wishing to better
understand the wider role and place of the sacred in a
fast-changing, globalized world."
*Reading Religion*
"[T]he study’s strength is the focus given to the multiple facets
of religiosity in Shanghai’s sacred urban spaces. Organised into
spatial metaphors, thefive chapters carry the reader into different
communities and their religious practices, from the Buddhist
practice of animal release to the Hindu Festival of Lights (Diwali)
and the Muslim Festival of Sacrifice (Eid al-Adha)."
*China Perspectives*
"Shanghai Sacred contributes to the growing literature on global
cities by showing how notions of the sacred both unite and divide
foreigners, native residents, and migrants from other parts of
China."
*American Ethnologist (AE)*
"This book examines the various ways that—amid the chaos and bustle
of more than 24 million people—believers in Buddhism, Christianity,
Islam, and other religions have carved out their own sacred spaces
where they can perform their rituals in concert with others"
*Journal of East Asian Studies*
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