In Sacred Webs, Chris White demonstrates how Chinese Protestants in Minnan, or the southern half of Fujian Province, fractured social ties and constructed and utilized new networks through churches, w
In one of two volumes that emerged from the 2008 Beijing Summit on Chinese Spirituality and Society, 14 papers consider potentials and realities of Confucian revivalism in China and beyond; Confuciani
Ng (religious education, Chinese U. of Hong Kong) describes how Christianity developed in China, where Christians deliberately chose to be independent of foreign control, some say after 1949 and other
" On the Rhetoric of Defining Confucianism as a Religion " tackles the perennially controversial question of whether Confucianism is a religion and proposes a holistic and contextual approach to the i
Globalization and the Making of Religious Modernity in China investigates the transformation of China’s religious landscape under the impact of global influences through case studies covering the peri
"The prevailing and misleading idea among scholars home and abroad that there is no creation myth in ancient China has had such an impact that, in spite of their huge efforts to correct it, scholars b
"In Mandarins and Heretics, Wu Junqing explores the denunciation and persecution of lay religious groups in late imperial (14th to 20th century) China. These groups varied greatly in their organisatio
The Varieties of Confucian Experience offers a number of ethnographic accounts of the popular Confucian revival taking place in China since the beginning of the 21st Century.
In Patriotic Cooperation, Diana Junio offers an account of a series of substantial social programs through collaboration between the Nationalist government and the Church of Christ in China that would
In Confucian Rituals and Chinese Villagers, Yonghua Liu examines how Confucian rituals were introduced to the Chinese countryside and how this introduction brought about social and cultural transforma
Xiaofei Kang and Donald Sutton examine a garrison city and a pilgrimage center in the Sino-Tibetan borderland, tracing the dynamic role of religion and ethnicity in state/society relations from the Mi
Based on the author's PhD thesis from 2010, this study describes the teachings, activities, and reception of Eastern Lightning (Dongfang shandian), or the Church of Almighty God, a religious movement
Author Riika-Leena Juntunen presents students, academics, and researchers with an examination of the establishment, reception, and development of Lizhou protestant stations during the early communist
