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Nova Religio
Confucianism as an “Organized Religion”
An Ethnographic Study of the Confucian Congregation
Na Chen, Lizhu Fan
Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, Vol. 21 No. 1, August 2017; (pp. 5-30) DOI: 10.1525/nr.2017.21.1.5
Na Chen
Na Chen, Fudan Development Institute, Fudan University, and Research Center for Comparative Literature and World Literature, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China. Email: nnchen@fudan.edu.cn, or nachen3@yahoo.com
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Lizhu Fan
Lizhu Fan, Department of Sociology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, and Program of Globalization and Religious Studies at Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Email: lizhufan@fudan.edu.cn
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Abstract

This is an ethnographic study of the Confucian Congregation—an emerging religious group in Fujian Province, southeast China—with an account of the Congregation’s origin, belief and rituals, organization, and development strategy. The Congregation started with one person providing supernatural healings, and it developed into an “organized religion” with hundreds of members in seven franchised branches. Furthermore, by taking advantage of the contemporary trend of the revival of Confucianism in China, Congregation leaders were even able to achieve a seemingly impossible feat—a legitimate status for their “superstitious” group.

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  • Chinese religion
  • Confucianism
  • Confucian Congregation
  • folk religion
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Confucianism as an “Organized Religion”
An Ethnographic Study of the Confucian Congregation
Na Chen, Lizhu Fan
Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, Vol. 21 No. 1, August 2017; (pp. 5-30) DOI: 10.1525/nr.2017.21.1.5
Na Chen
Na Chen, Fudan Development Institute, Fudan University, and Research Center for Comparative Literature and World Literature, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China. Email: nnchen@fudan.edu.cn, or nachen3@yahoo.com
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Lizhu Fan, Department of Sociology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, and Program of Globalization and Religious Studies at Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Email: lizhufan@fudan.edu.cn
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Confucianism as an “Organized Religion”
An Ethnographic Study of the Confucian Congregation
Na Chen, Lizhu Fan
Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, Vol. 21 No. 1, August 2017; (pp. 5-30) DOI: 10.1525/nr.2017.21.1.5
Na Chen
Na Chen, Fudan Development Institute, Fudan University, and Research Center for Comparative Literature and World Literature, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China. Email: nnchen@fudan.edu.cn, or nachen3@yahoo.com
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Lizhu Fan, Department of Sociology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, and Program of Globalization and Religious Studies at Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Email: lizhufan@fudan.edu.cn
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