This search for the sacred is shifting social structures and shaping China’s future in new and significant ways. Fire ceremony gathering (2016)With more than 24 million residents, Shanghai is China’s largest city and the 10th wealthiest in the world. Located on a former section of the grounds of the Longhua Buddhist temple, it is part of the “sacred geography” of Shanghai. The first thorough investigation of religious practices in a Chinese city, Shanghai Sacred was created collaboratively over four years by photographer and anthropologist Liz Hingley, alongside Professor Benoît Vermander, of the Xu-Ricci Dialogue Center at Fudan University and Liang Zhang, a researcher at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. The Shanghai Sacred book will be published by GOST in November.

Source: The Guardian June 20, 2019 06:00 UTC