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Unlock the Secrets of Maoist Revolution and Grassroots Religion

Maoism and Grassroots Religion explores grassroots religious life under and after Mao in Rui’an County, Wenzhou of southeast China, a region widely known for its religious vitality.

The Revolutionary Experience

Drawing from unexplored local state archives, records of religious institutions, memoirs, and interviews, it tells the story of local communities’ encounter with the Communist revolution, and its consequences, especially competition and struggles for religious property and ritual space.

Reinvention of Religious Life

Rather than being totally disrupted, Xiaoxuan Wang shows, religious life under Mao was characterized by remarkable variety and unevenness and was contingent on the interactions of local dynamics with Maoist campaigns—

• land reform
• The Great Leap Forward
• The Cultural Revolution

The revolutionary experience strongly determined the trajectories and development patterns of different religions, inter-religious dynamics, and state-religion relationships in the post-Mao era.

Maoism permanently altered the religious landscape in China, especially by inadvertently promoting the localization and even (in some areas) expansion of Protestant Christianity, as well as the reinvention of traditional communal religion.