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Cultural Reconstruction of State,Society,and Yunnan Ethnic and Folk Religions in the Ming Dynasty

YANG Jindong   

  1. (1.College of Ethnology and Sociology,Yunnan University,Kunming 650091,China;2.Southwest Frontier Ethnic Minority Research Center,Kunming 650091,China)
  • Online:2017-11-01 Published:2017-10-30

Abstract: Ethnic and folk religion and its cultural ecology are embedded in the relationship field of the state and society.There are faith forms based on the ethnic and folk social inheritance and evolution,and the ones formed by the nationalization of the five major religions.The cultural and religious reconstruction of the Yunnan ethnic groups in the Ming Dynasty(1368—1644) is influenced by state power and social context,forming an interactive and dynamic state-society-folk process.There are two clues to understand this,one is the folk tendency of the official religion and the other is the official tendency of the folk religions,which reflects the relationship between Yunnan local society and the state power.

Key words: state, society, Yunnan, ethnic and folk religions, cultural reconstruction

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