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Seminar
New Religious Movements in Modern China - Contexts, Debates, and Analysis
Christian Meyer
Hinweise für Studierende
The course will be held in Winter Semester 2025/26.
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This course deals with the issue of the so-called new religious movements in modern China using the example of Falun Gong. While so-called new religious movements often emerged or became visible in open situations such as in the liberal West or in post-1945 Japan (shinshin shukyo), groups and their teachings that deviated from officially recognized doctrines (such as Confucianism, but also Buddhism and Daoism) in the Chinese context were often treated under the label of “sects” or “heterodox groups”.
The course will start with a general consideration of appropriate terms such as “new religious movement” (NRM), “cult”, “sect”, “redemptive society” (Heilsgemeinschaft), or “heterodox teaching” (xiejiao). In a second step it will concentrate on Falun gong analyzing its specific context, chronology and dynamics in interaction with the “Communist” Chinese state (as “orthodoxy”). Furthermore we will look into its teachings as responses to the specific conditions.
The course is planned to be continued by a course dealing with the longer history of the broader phenomenon of such voluntary religious groups.
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Literaturhinweise
David Palmer: The Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in China. London: Hurst, 2007.
Lukas Pokorny und Franz Winter (Hg.): Handbook of East Asian New Religious Movements. Brill, Leiden und Boston, 2018.
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14 Termine
Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung
Mi, 16.04.2025 12:00 - 14:00
Mi, 23.04.2025 12:00 - 14:00
Mi, 30.04.2025 12:00 - 14:00
Mi, 07.05.2025 12:00 - 14:00
Mi, 14.05.2025 12:00 - 14:00
Mi, 21.05.2025 12:00 - 14:00
Mi, 28.05.2025 12:00 - 14:00
Mi, 04.06.2025 12:00 - 14:00
Mi, 11.06.2025 12:00 - 14:00
Mi, 18.06.2025 12:00 - 14:00
Mi, 25.06.2025 12:00 - 14:00
Mi, 02.07.2025 12:00 - 14:00
Mi, 09.07.2025 12:00 - 14:00
Mi, 16.07.2025 12:00 - 14:00