Religious Philanthropy in 21st Century China: the ethical, organisational and political hybridity of a Buddhist Charity Organisation.

21 世纪中国的宗教慈善事业：佛教慈善组织的道德、组织和政治混合性。

• 批准号: 2646044
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2646044
• 关键词: Religious; Philanthropy; 21st; Century; China

This proposed PhD project sets out to study the growth of religious philanthropy in contemporary China over the first twodecades of the 21st century. By gathering rich, original data on the Loving Benevolence Foundation (LBF, pseudonym),one of China's most important Buddhist inspired charities, I seek to better understand the ethical discourses thatmanifest in LBF's members, its organisational structures, and engagements with the state. Based on fieldwork in threedifferent cities, I will attempt to engage with the emic categories employed within this complex assemblage ofphilanthropic and religious organisational structures and events that make up LBF. This fieldwork will attempt to explorethe relationship between seemingly secular structures and the core religious network that has driven LBF's growth. Indoing so this case study allows us to reflect on the meaning of religion in contemporary China, and the various waysBuddhists are redefining religious praxis, through new hybrid moral discourses and organisational structures. Themeaning of these networks and their events are flexible, accommodating many different understandings of the good, andin doing so LBF positions itself favourably in the increasingly diverse moral topography of contemporary China. Thisproject seeks to bring morality into the focus, not only as the individual's acceptance of societies rules, but also as anever evolving set of competing discourses that can tell us about contemporary China.

本拟议的博士项目旨在研究二十一世纪头二十年当代中国宗教慈善事业的发展。通过收集有关仁爱基金会（LBF，化名）（中国最重要的佛教慈善机构之一）的丰富原始数据，我试图更好地理解仁爱基金会成员、其组织结构以及与国家的交往中所体现的道德话语。基于在三个不同城市的实地考察，我将尝试探讨构成 LBF 的慈善和宗教组织结构和活动的复杂组合中所采用的主位类别。这项实地调查将尝试探索看似世俗的结构与推动 LBF 发展的核心宗教网络之间的关系。通过这个案例研究，我们可以反思宗教在当代中国的意义，以及佛教徒通过新的混合道德话语和组织结构重新定义宗教实践的各种方式。这些网络及其事件的含义是灵活的，可以容纳对善的许多不同理解，并通过这样做，LBF在当代中国日益多样化的道德格局中占据有利地位。该项目力求将道德纳入关注焦点，它不仅是个人对社会规则的接受，而且也是一组不断发展的竞争性话语，可以告诉我们当代中国的情况。