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Title |
Title of document |
From Spiritual Healing to Protest: Falun Gong's Emerging Culture of Martyrdom - Enlightened Martyrdom |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Susan Palmer; Concordia University; |
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Subject |
Discipline(s) |
Religious Studies |
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Keyword(s) |
Chinese religion; Falun Gong; Li Hongzhi; People's Republic of China; new religions in China; human rights; civil disobedience |
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Subject classification |
New Religious Movements |
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Description |
Abstract |
Falun Gong’s ongoing resistance movement and the escalation of Master Li’s apocalyptic ideology in response to persecution is the focus of this study. On the basis of field research and interviews with practitioners, the author proposes a four-phase model of conversion, culminating in an activist commitment to the Master’s call to serve in the protest demonstrations against the People’s Republic of China’s persecution of Falun Gong. Since Falun Gong’s civil disobedience has resulted in the deaths of over 343 practitioners, it is important to analyze the process of conversion/commitment to the cause, and the practitioners’ own spiritual understanding of their activist efforts in a two-tiered resistance movement that is concerned with global human rights, but also with a cosmic battle between gods and demons, called fa-rectification. |
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Publisher |
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Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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Date |
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10-Oct-2019 |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/30554 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.30554 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; Enlightened Martyrdom |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Rights |
Copyright and permissions |
Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |