Introduction Philip Wickeri
Part I: Ways of Being Religious in the Chinese World
1. Spirituality in a Modern Chinese Metropolis, Lizhu Fan and James
Whitehead
2. Communal Worship and Festivals in Chinese Villages, Wai-lun
Tam
3. The Religious Life of Ethnic Minority Communities, Philip
Wickeri and Yik-Fai Tam
4. Modalities of Doing Religion, Adam Chau
Part II. Religion, Culture, and Society
5. The Body: Health, Nation, and Transcendence, David A. Palmer
6. Gender and Sexuality, C. Julia Huang, Elena Valussi, and David
A. Palmer
7. Chinese Cosmology and the Environment, Robert Weller
8. Religious Philanthropy and Chinese Civil Society, André
Laliberté, David A. Palmer, and Keping Wu
Part III. Religion, Politics, and the Economy
9. Religion in Chinese Social and Political History, David A.
Palmer
10. The Social Organization of Religious Communities in the
Twentieth Century, Vincent Goossaert
11. Contemporary Issues in State-Religion Relations, André
Laliberté
12. Market Economy and the Revival of Religions, Fenggang Yang
Part IV. Global Perspectives
13. The Globalization of Chinese Religions and Traditions, Richard
Madsen and Elijah Siegler
Conclusion, Glenn Shive
Glossary
Suggested Further Readings
Index
David A. Palmer is an assistant professor in the department of
Sociology and fellow of the Centre for Anthropological Research at
the University of Hong Kong. His most recent book (co-authored with
V. Goossaert) is The Religious Question in Modern China (2011).
Glenn Shive is the executive director of the Hong Kong America
Center, a consortium of Hong Kong universities promoting academic
exchange between the United States and Hong Kong and between the
United States and China via universities in Hong Kong. His B.A. in
religion and PhD in Chinese history are from Temple University in
Philadelphia.
Philip L. Wickeri is Advisor to Hong Kong's Anglican Archbishop on
Theological and Historical Studies and Adjunct Professor of
Interdisciplinary Studies at the Graduate Theological Union,
Berkeley, California. His most recent book is Reconstructing
Christianity in China: K. H. Ting and the Chinese Church (2007).
"The essays in this volume present data on an important
contemporary development, one with implications for insight into
the human condition..." --Journal of Chinese Political Science
"This book offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of
religious life in contemporary China. Using an interdisciplinary
approach, the book situates Chinese religious life in the wider
contexts of culture, economy, politics, and globalization. Chinese
Religious Life is a must-read for those who want to know the
momentous religio-cultural changes in China during the past several
decades."--Kwok Pui-lan, author of Chinese Women and
Christianity, 1860-1927
"An excellent introduction to religion in China. It is essential
reading for anyone who wishes to understand the various modalities
of religious life amongst Chinese people...Highly
recommended."--Reviews in Religion & Theology
"Chinese Religious Life is highly recommended for use in graduate
seminars and as a platform for further textual, as well as
field-based, research. Due to immense changes in state policies and
restrictions imposed after the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and the
2012 transfer of Communist Party leadership, Chinese Religious Life
has become an even more sensitive and timely topic..." --China
Review International
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