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Article: Gift and market in the Chinese religious economy
Title | Gift and market in the Chinese religious economy |
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Authors | |
Keywords | China Economic Anthropology Gift Economy Religious Economy Religious Market |
Issue Date | 2011 |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rrel20/current |
Citation | Religion, 2011, v. 41 n. 4, p. 569-594 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Religious market theory has figured prominently in recent scholarly debates in the social scientific study of religion in China. This article argues that the existence of 'religious markets' should not be assumed as axiomatic but should be investigated as concrete social processes, distinguishing between market and non-market relations. Based on field research among popular religious and spiritual groups in China and drawing on the literature of economic anthropology, the author proposes an alternative model of a 'religious gift economy' made up of gifting exchanges between humans and between gods and humans. Five ethnographic cases from China illustrate the operation and coexistence of gift and market exchanges. In contemporary China, there is a tendency towards an increasing marketisation of religion, with a simultaneous growth of religious movements explicitly offering non-market forms of sociality. Rather than subsuming all exchanges under the blanket concept of the market, studies of religion must be attentive to the distinct logics of different models of exchange. © 2011 Taylor and Francis Group, LLC. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/172360 |
ISSN | 2020 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.482 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Palmer, DA | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-10-30T06:21:57Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2012-10-30T06:21:57Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Religion, 2011, v. 41 n. 4, p. 569-594 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0048-721X | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/172360 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Religious market theory has figured prominently in recent scholarly debates in the social scientific study of religion in China. This article argues that the existence of 'religious markets' should not be assumed as axiomatic but should be investigated as concrete social processes, distinguishing between market and non-market relations. Based on field research among popular religious and spiritual groups in China and drawing on the literature of economic anthropology, the author proposes an alternative model of a 'religious gift economy' made up of gifting exchanges between humans and between gods and humans. Five ethnographic cases from China illustrate the operation and coexistence of gift and market exchanges. In contemporary China, there is a tendency towards an increasing marketisation of religion, with a simultaneous growth of religious movements explicitly offering non-market forms of sociality. Rather than subsuming all exchanges under the blanket concept of the market, studies of religion must be attentive to the distinct logics of different models of exchange. © 2011 Taylor and Francis Group, LLC. | en_US |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rrel20/current | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Religion | en_US |
dc.rights | This is an electronic version of an article published in Religion, 2011, v. 41 n. 4, p. 569-594. The Journal article is available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0048721X.2011.616703 | - |
dc.subject | China | en_US |
dc.subject | Economic Anthropology | en_US |
dc.subject | Gift Economy | en_US |
dc.subject | Religious Economy | en_US |
dc.subject | Religious Market | en_US |
dc.title | Gift and market in the Chinese religious economy | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Palmer, DA: palmer19@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Palmer, DA=rp00654 | en_US |
dc.description.nature | postprint | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/0048721X.2011.616703 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84861220335 | en_US |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 209401 | - |
dc.relation.references | http://www.scopus.com/mlt/select.url?eid=2-s2.0-84861220335&selection=ref&src=s&origin=recordpage | en_US |
dc.identifier.volume | 41 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issue | 4 | en_US |
dc.identifier.spage | 569 | en_US |
dc.identifier.epage | 594 | en_US |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1096-1151 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000299246700004 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Palmer, DA=27968016800 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0048-721X | - |