arc/china the chinese religions initiative The Center for East Asian Studies and the Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies present The Politics of Religion in Contemporary China April 30-May 1, 2004 Okimoto Room, Encina Hall (Room 307, Encina Hall East ) Stanford University Email Contact Attendance by invitation Campus Map Funded by China and Inner Asia Council Research Conference Grant Association of Asian Studies Conference Organizers Yoshiko Ashiwa Professor of Anthropology Graduate School of Social Sciences Hitotsubashi University y.ashiwa@srv.cc.hit-u.ac.jp David L. Wank Professor of Sociology Faculty of Comparative Culture Sophia University d-wank@sophia.ac.jp Conference Schedule (Discussant assignments to be announced) Friday, April 30 Morning 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks Yoshiko Ashiwa Professor of Anthropology, Hitotsubashi University David Wank, Professor of Sociology, Sophia University 9:10 "The Politics of Religion in Late-Imperial China: Origins of the Regulatory State" Timothy Brook Professor of History, University of Toronto Discussant: David Palmer 10:10 "Positioning Religion in Modernity: State and Religion in Contemporary China" Yoshiko Ashiwa, David Wank Discussant: Kenneth Dean 11:10 Break 11:20 "A Church of their Own: Rural Catholicism and State-Society Relations in Postsocialist China" Eriberto P. Lozada Jr. Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Davidson College Discussant: Dru Gladney Afternoon 1:30 "Growing Organizations without Leaders? Aboveground and Underground Churches in China" Carsten Vala Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, University of California, Berkeley Discussant: Adam Chau 2:30 "Islam in China: State Policing and Identity Politics" Dru Gladney Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawaii Discussant: Ning Qiang 3:30 Break 3:45 "The Politics of a Reviving Buddhist Temple in Contemporary China: Organization, Authority, and Field" Yoshiko Ashiwa, David Wank Discussant: Carsten Vala 5:00 Reception Falcon Lounge, 5th floor, Encina Hall ,West hosted by Center for East Asian Studies and the Deptartment of Religious Studies Saturday, May 1 Morning 9:00 "The Catholic Pilgrimage to Sheshan" Richard Madsen Professor of Sociology, University of California-San Diego Discussant: Yoshiko Ashiwa 10:00 "New Roles of Religion in the People's Republic of China: A Case Study of the Xuanzhong Monastery" Ning Qiang Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Michigan Discussant: David Wank 11:00 Break 11:10 "The Politics of Qigong: Body Cultivation and the Chinese State, 1949-1999" David Palmer Post-Doctoral Fellow in Religion and Contemporary Society London School of Economics and Political Science Discussant: Eriberto Lozada Afternoon 1:15 "The Channeling Zone Between the Local State and Local Society: The Case of Popular Religion in Shaanbei, North-Central China" Adam Chao Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Skidmore College Discussant: Richard Madsen 2:15 "Further Partings of the Way: Taoism and the State in Contemporary China" Kenneth Dean Professor of Asian Studies, McGill University Discussant: Timothy Brook 3:15 Break 3:30 Conclusion Site hosted by arc/china