Fw: H-ASIA: CFP - Religious Publishing in Early Twentieth-century China, AAR, Nov 2011

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CFP - Religious Publishing in Early Twentieth-century China, AAR, Nov
2011
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From: Gregory Scott <gas2122@columbia.edu>

Call for Papers - Religious Publishing in Early Twentieth-century China

a panel proposal to be submitted for the

Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Francisco,
November 18-21, 2011

We are organizing a panel on religious publishing and print culture in
early twentieth-century China to be submitted for this year's AAR
conference. The production and circulation of religious texts in China
underwent a tremendous expansion in the first decades of the twentieth
century, enabled both by newly introduced mechanized print technology,
and by the formation of professional organized institutions for
authoring, editing, printing, distributing, and retailing religious
books. What effect did this flood of printed material have on
religious traditions and reform movements in China? How did the
authors, publishers, and printers understand the significance of their
work? How were new types of religious texts received by religious
publics, and how were oral and performative traditions influenced?
These are some of the questions we hope to explore in our panel.

Paper proposals are welcome from scholars working on topics including
but not limited to canon formation, publishing enterprises, editing
religious texts, and religious reading publics, relating to Buddhism,
Daoism, Christianity, Islam, and popular religions in China from
approximately 1900 to 1950 CE. Our goal is to have a range of
religious traditions represented in the panel and to have an
interdisciplinary discussion of how publishing played a role in their
modern history and how their print cultures were intertwined.

Anyone interested in participating in this panel proposal is welcome
to contact us:

Rostislav Berezkin, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Fellow, Institute of Modern
History, Academia Sinica
rostislavberezkin@yahoo.com

Gregory Adam Scott, Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University
gas2122@columbia.edu

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