Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

PART I - The Relationship of Missionary-Adepts to their Faith and the Issue of Faith Confirmation
1. The Production of Missionary-Adepts
2. Confirming One's Faith

PART II - Charisma and Routinization
3. Production of Charisma Within the Yiguandao
4. Charisma and "Routinization of the Extraordinary": Structuring Leadership to Open the Wilderness

PART III - Defusing Tension
5. The Role of Confucianism to Defuse Tension With the Social and Political Environment.
6. Yiguandao's Promotion of Confucianism-Related Activities in Hong Kong and Mainland China.

PART IV - Organization and Strategy
7. Structuring and Organizing the Missionary Effort
8. A Well-Orchestrated Strategy Taking Politics and Cross-Straits Relations Into Account

Epilogue
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Sébastien Billioud is Professor of Chinese Studies at Université de Paris and a member of the French Research Institute on East Asia (IFRAE). His cross-disciplinary research explores the modern and contemporary fates of Confucianism. He is the author of Thinking Through Confucian Modernity, A Study of Mou Zongsan's Moral Metaphysics, The Sage and the People, The Confucian Revival in China, and other works.

Reviews

I highly recommend this well-researched book
*Na Chen, Nova Religio*

Reclaiming the Wilderness is a must-read for scholars in the field, but also more broadly for anyone interested in the Confucian revival in China, cross-strait relations, and new religious movements. Finally, it also provides valuable insights for non-specialists and students. As such, Billioud has succeeded in providing a highly readable book that appeals to experts and nonspecialists alike and which, I am sure, will leave a great impact on Chinese studies and religious studies.
*Nikolas Broy, International Journal of Asian Studies *

This book is well organized to illustrate the current work Yiguandao practitioners are doing to reclaim what they view as their rightful place as a legitimate part of China's religious landscape. Summing Up: Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals.
*M. C. Brose, CHOICE*

The greatest worth of this volume is arguably its very fundamental premise: studies pertaining to Yīguàndào - especially those built upon genuine access to practitioners - are desperately lacking, and this volume grants a much-needed window.
*Joseph Chadwin, Religious Studies Review *