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Chinese Religions
by Julia Ching. 275 pgs.

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Chinese Religions

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Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration

Chronological Table

Introduction

Part One the Indigenous Traditions

1: The Ancestral Cult and Divination: The Dawn of Ancient Religion

2: Sacrifice and Kingship: The Eclipse of Ancient Religion

3: Morality and Rituals: Confucianism as Religious Humanism

4: Love or the Law: Confucianism and Its Rivals: Mohism and Legalism

5: Freedom and the Natural: Taoism as Religious Philosophy

6: Immortality and Mysticism: Taoism as Salvation Religion

Part Two Foreign Religions and Chinese Response

7: Scripture and Hermeneutics: Buddhism's Entry to China

8: Mysticism and Devotion: Buddhism Becomes Chinese

9: Metaphysics and Spirituality: Neo-Confucianism as Response to Buddhism

10: Ethnic Survival: Islam and Other Middle Eastern Religions

11: Cultural Assimilation: The Dilemma of Christianity

Part Three the Legacy of Syncretism

12: The Vitality of Syncretism: Popular Religion

13: The Future of Chinese Religions

Appendix: the Chinese Liturgical Year

Notes

Bibliography

Index-Glossary: Selected Chinese Terms

General Index
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Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China
by Adam Yuet Chau. 318 pgs.

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A Note on Units of Measurement, Romanization, and Dates

1: Introduction

2: Shaanbei History, Society, and Culture

3: Shaanbei Popular Religious Landscape

4: Beliefs and Practices

5: Legends and Histories

6: Provisioning Magical Efficacy and Divine Benevolence

7: Modes of Social Organization and Folk Event Productions

8: Red-Hot Sociality

9: Temple Boss and Local Elite: The Story of Lao Wang

10: Longwanggou and Agrarian Political Culture

11: The Local State and the Politics of Legitimation

12: Conclusion

Notes

References Cited

Character List

Index
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Popular Religion in China: The Imperial Metaphor
by Stephan Feuchtwang. 284 pgs.

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Chinese popular religion has no name. It is not a religion of a book, nor is it the named religion of China - Daoism. It does include elements of Buddhism, imperial cults and Daoism, but it is identifiable with none of them. It is popular in the sense of being local and true of the China of the Han, where every place had or has its local cults and the festivals peculiar to them.

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Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter One: History, Identification and Belief

Chapter Two: The Annual Apocalypse

Chapter Three: Official and Local Cults

Chapter Four: Local Festivals and Their Cults

Chapter Five: The Incense-Burner: Communication and Deference

Chapter Six: Daoism and Its Clients

Chapter Seven: Ang Gong, or the Truth of Puppets

Chapter Eight: The Politics of Religion and Political Ritual

Notes

References

Glossary

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Asian Visions of Authority: Religion and the Modern States of East and Southeast Asia (Chap. 5 "Historical Allusion and the Defense of Identity: Malaysian Chinese Popular Religion")
by Charles F. Keyes, Laurel Kendall, Helen Hardacre. 366 pgs.

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Introduction: Contested Visions of Community in East and Southeast Asia

Part 1 State Authority and Religion

1: The Universal and the Particular in the Rites of Hiroshima

2: Communist Revolution and the Buddhist Past in Cambodia

3: Reimagined Community: A Social History of Muslim Education in Pasuruan, East Java

Part II Reshaping Religious Practice

4: Religion and Ethnic Politics in Malaysia the Significance of the Islamic Resurgence Phenomenon

5: Historical Allusion and the Defense of Identity: Malaysian Chinese Popular Religion

6: Capitalism, Community, and the Rise of Amoral Cults in Taiwan

7: A Rite of Modernization and Its Postmodern Discontents of Weddings, Bureaucrats, and Morality in the Republic of Korea

Part III Modes of Resistance

8: Rituals of Resistance the Manipulation of Shamanism in Contemporary Korea

9: The Politics of Ritual Displacement

10: Salman Rushdie in China Religion, Ethnicity, and State Definition in the People's Republic

11: Hijab and Moments of Legitimation Islamic Resurgence in Thai Society

Epilogue: Defying Disenchantment Reflections on Ritual, Power, and History

Works Cited

Contributors

Index
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Probing China's Soul: Religion, Politics, and Protest in the People's Republic
by Julia Ching. 269 pgs.

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Other books by Julia Ching

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Acknowledgments

A Note on Pronunciation

Important Dates in Modern Chinese History

A Chronology of Events April 15 to June 24, 1989

Foreword

Introduction: On Being Human and Being Chinese

Chapter 1: The Event

Chapter 2: Through Western Eyes

Chapter 3: The Dictator and His Tabula Rasa

Chapter 4: Chinese Communism: Old Wine in New Bottles?

Chapter 5: Student Protests in Modern Chinese History

Chapter 6: Is There Religious Freedom in China?

Chapter 7: The Two Tian'anmen Incidents: 1976 and 1989

Chapter 8: What of Moral Legitimacy?

Chapter 9: Will "Mr. Democracy" Come to China?

What Now?

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Religion in a Changing World: Comparative Studies in Sociology (Chap. 16 "Religions and Regimes in China")
by Madeleine Cousineau. 238 pgs.

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Twenty-eight scholars, many of them well known in the sociology of religion, examine a variety of faith traditions and sociological topics that illustrate the connection between religion and society in many different countries at the dawn of the 21st century. The faith traditions include Judaism, Roman Catholicism, evangelical and mainstream Protestantism, Islam, Hinduism, Yoruba religion, Chinese religion, and several new religious movements, including a UFO cult in Quebec.

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Acknowledgments

PART I: INDIVIDUAL RELIGION, CHOICE, AND IDENTITY

PART I: INDIVIDUAL RELIGION, CHOICE, AND IDENTITY

REFERENCES

2: The "Return" to Traditional Judaism in the United States, Russia, and Israel: The Impact of Minority and Majority Status on Religious Conversion Processes

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NOTES

3: From West Africa to Brooklyn: Yoruba Religion among African Americans

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NOTES

4: Identity Reconstruction and Empowerment of South Asian Immigrant Women in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand

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5: Religious Views of Mainline Protestant Baby Boomers in the United States

6: Gender and Jewish Identity among Twenty-Somethings in the United States

NOTE

REFERENCES

7: Canadian Evangelical Church Women and Responses to Family Violence

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PART II: RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION

8: The Inverted Norm: The Formation and Functioning of Racially Mixed Christian Congregations in South Africa

INTRODUCTION

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NOTES

9: The Variety of Hindu Priests and Assistants: A Brief Introduction

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10: Catholic Deacons: A Lesson in Role conflict and Ambiguity

NOTES

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11: Attitudes to Women's Ordination in Protestant Congregations in the United States, Britain, and Australia

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12: Latinos and Latinas in the Catholic Church: Cohesion and Conflict

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13: Mission Churches and Church-Sect Theory: Seventh-day Adventists in Africa

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14 Russia's Religious Market: Struggling with the Heritage of Russian Orthodox Monopoly

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15: The Raelians Are Coming!: The Future of a UFO Religion

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PART III: RELIGION, POLITICAL ORDER, AND SOCIAL CHANGE

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16: Religions and Regimes in China

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17: Diversities and Discontinuities in the Islamic Response to Modernity

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18: The Sanctified Church and the Color Line: Reorganization, Social Change, and the African American Religious Experience

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19: Beating Back the Enemy: How Venezuelan Pentecostals Think about Social Change

CONCLUSION

NOTES

NOTES

20: Religion and Social Activism: The Grassroots Catholic Church in Brazil

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NOTES

21: Pragmatism and Its Discontents: The. Evolution of the Christian Right in the United States

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22: New Religions in Australia: Cultural Diffusion in Action

23: The Earth Is Sacred: Ecological Concerns in American Wicca

NOTES

REFERENCES

Suggestions for Further Reading

Index

About the Contributors
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Culture & State in Chinese History: Conventions, Accommodations, and Critiques (Part II "The Power of Faith")
by Theodore Huters, R. Bin Wong, Pauline Yu. 506 pgs.

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The contributors re-assess assumptions about state power, and a divide between state and society, in traditional China. The general conclusion is that the state was only one actor in a culture that both elites and commoners could shape.

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A Note on This Series

Acknowledgments

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Contributors

Introduction: Shifting Paradigms of Political and Social Order

Part I Elite Education and Cultural Conventions

Chapter I Examinations and Orthodoxies: 1070 and 1313 Compared

Chapter 2: The Formation of "Dao Learning" as Imperial Ideology During the Early Ming Dynasty

Chapter 3 Canon Formation in Late Imperial China

Chapter 4 Salvaging Poetry: the "Poetic" in the Qing

Part II the Power of Faith

Chapter 5 a Jiao is a Jiao is A? Thoughts on the Meaning of a Ritual

Chapter 6 at the Margin of Public Authority: the Ming State and Buddhism

Chapter 7 Power, Gender, and Pluralism in the Cult of the Goddess of Taishan

Part III Accommodations and Critiques

Chapter 8 Style and Suffering in Two Stories by "Langxian"

Chapter 9 Ming-Qing Women Poets and the Notions of "Talent" and "Morality"

Chapter 10 the Scorpion in the Scholar's Cap: Ritual, Memory, and Desire in Rulin Waishi

Chapter II the Shattered Mirror: Wu Jianren and the Reflection of Strange Event

Part IV Visions of Community and Social Order

Chapter 12 Confucian Agendas for Material and Ideological Control in Modern China

Chapter 13: Community, Society, and History in Sun Yat-Sen's Sanmin Zhuyi

Chapter 14: Constructing the Civilized Community

Reference Matter

Notes

Works Cited

Character List

Index
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The Sinister Way: The Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious Culture
by Richard Von Glahn. 385 pgs.

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"A fascinating story of the origins and development of the Wutong cult and the demonic in Chinese religion. From the Shang Dynasty down to late imperial times, Von Glahn lays before us an engaging wealth of knowledge and never-before presented data."--Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Indiana University, author of "Early Daoist Scriptures
"No other writer has explored the place of the sinister in Chinese religion in such a thoughtful and nuanced way. An excellent, gracefully written study covering major themes of the Song through Ming periods."--Patricia Ebrey, author of "The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period

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Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Ancestors, Ghosts, and Gods in Ancient China

Chapter 2: The Han Cult of the Dead and Salvific Religion

Chapter 3: Shanxiao

Chapter 4: Plague Demons and Epidemic Gods

Chapter 5: The Song Transformation of Chinese Religious Culture

Chapter 6: Wutong: from Demon to Deity

Chapter 7: The Enchantment of Wealth

Conclusion

Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

Glossary

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Religion under Socialism in China
by Luo Zhufeng, Donald E. Macinnis, Zheng Xi'An, Bishop K. H. Ting. 254 pgs.

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Religion Under Socialism in China

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Foreword

Translator's Introduction

Glossary

Preface

1: Introduction

2: History and Characteristics of Religions in China

3: Fundamental Changes in the Status of Religion After the Founding of the Nation

4: Reasons for the Persistence of Religion

5: Coordinating Religion with Socialist Society

6: The Policy of Freedom of Religious Belief

7: Conclusion

Appendices

Appendix One: To Pi County and Back Field Studies on Social Sources of Religion in Northern Jiangsu Province (June 1983)

Appendix Two: A Survey of Productive- Labor Projects in Buddhist Monasteries of Fujian

Appendix Three: Why Some Young People Become Buddhists

Appendix Four: The Current Situation of Daoism in Qingchengshan, Sichuan Province

Appendix Five: A Survey of Christian Retired Workers in a Shanghai District

Appendix Six: The Church at the Foot of Changbai Mountain a Survey of Christianity Among the Korean People in the Northeastern Provinces

Appendix Seven: Religious Faith of Fishing People in Qingpu County the Importance of Implementing the Policy on Religion for Bringing Unity with the Masses of Believers

Appendix Eight: Adapting Islam to Chinese Socialist Practice in Xinjiang

Appendix Nine: The Rich Soil on Which Christianity Grows in an Anhui County

Afterword

Index
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Transnational Religion and Fading States (Chap. Six "World Religions and National States: Competing Claims in East Asia")
by Susann Hoeber Rudolph, James Piscatori. 280 pgs.

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Preface

Introduction: Religion, States, and Transnational Civil Society

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Part One Self-Organization: from Society and from Below

One Trans-State Islam and Security

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Two Muslim Missionaries and African States

Notes

Three Bridging the Gap Between Empowerment and Power in Latin America

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Four Faces of Catholic Transnationalism: in and Beyond France

Notes

Part Two Hierarchy: from A Center and from Above

Five Globalizing Catholicism and the Return to A "Universal" Church

Notes

Six World Religions and National States: Competing Claims in East Asia

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Seven Religious Resource Networks: Roman Catholic Philanthropy in Central and East Europe

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Eight in Defense of Allah's Realm: Religion and Statecraft in Saudi Foreign Policy Strategy

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Part Three Reflections

Nine Dehomogenizing Religious Formations

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About the Contributors

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