Heritage and Religion in East Asia

Heritage and Religion in East Asia examines how religious heritage, in a mobile way, plays across national boundaries in East Asia and, in doing so, the book provides new theoretical insights into the articulation of heritage and religion.

1. Heritage and Religion in East Asia; Part I Recognition and Remembrance in Religion and Heritage; 2. Dealing with Death; Separating and Mixing Religious and Secular Heritage; 3. Who Owns "the Culture of the Yellow Emperor"?; Part II Modernizing Heritage; 4. After the Heritage: Fate of Gangneng Danoje Between Religious Ritual and Cultural Festival; 5. Japan and China: Parallel and Divergent Tracks in Modernity?; 6. Ethnic Religion after Disasters: Intangible Cultural Heritage in China; Part III From Heritage to Religion; 7. Heritage, Ritual Space and Contested Urbanization in Southern China; 8. Heritage Conservation and Ethnic Associations: the Chaozhou Hungry Ghosts Festival in Hong Kong; 9. The Lute of Heaven of Golden Dragon Valley: Transcending; Part IV Authenticity and Sacred; 10. Between Religious Authenticity and Intangible Cultural Heritage: The Cult of Mazu in Taiwan, Fujian and Hainan Island; 11. Issues Regarding the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage Related to Religion in Japan; 12. Seichi Junrei: Heritage, Pilgrimage and Popular Culture in Contemporary Japan; 13. Afterword: Secular Sacred and Religious Sacred