Heritage and Religion in East Asia

Shu-Li Wang is Assistant Research Fellow of the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Wang obtained her PhD in anthropology from University College London. Her research interests lie in critical heritage studies, museum anthropology, cultural memory and anthropology of nationalism. Michael Rowlands is Emeritus Professor in Anthropology and Material Culture at University College London. He has been doing field research on Material Culture and Heritage in West Africa and more recently in China since 1976. Yujie Zhu is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies, the Australian National University. His research interests centre on heritage and its relationship with politics, social memory, cultural tourism and religious practices.

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