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1 CONTENTS Volume One Introduction... 1 Vincent Goossaert SECTION ONE DEFINITIONS 1. A Chinese Religion Exists Stephan Feuchtwang 2. On the Very Idea of Religions (In the Modern West and in Early Medieval China) Robert Ford Campany 3. Questions of Vocabulary, or How Shall We Talk About Chinese Religion? John Lagerwey 4. Modalities of Doing Religion Adam Yuet Chau SECTION TWO HISTORICAL OUTLINES 5. Taoism: The Story of the Way Kristofer Schipper 6. The Song Transformation of Chinese Religious Culture Richard von Glahn

2 vi contents 7. Chinese Redemptive Societies and Salvationist Religion: Historical Phenomenon or Sociological Category? David A. Palmer 8. Introduction: The Survey and Its Main Findings Kenneth Dean and Zheng Zhenman SECTION THREE HISTORIOGRAPHY 9. Imperial Fantasies: The Chinese Communists and Peasant Rebellions David Ownby 10. Between Secularist Ideology and Desecularizing Reality: The Birth and Growth of Religious Research in Communist China Fenggang Yang 11. Secularization Theories and the Study of Chinese Religions Michael Szonyi 12. The Concept of Popular Religion in the Study of Chinese Religions: Retrospects and Prospects Philip Clart Volume Two SECTION FOUR DISCIPLINARY APPROACHES Sociology 13. Difffused and Institutional Religion in Chinese Society C.K. Yang 14. Religious Renaissance and Taiwan s Modern Middle Classes Richard Madsen

3 contents vii Anthropology 15. The Changing Economy of Temple Daoism in Shanghai Der-Ruey Yang 16. A Danggi Temple in Taipei: Spirit-Mediums in Modern Urban Taiwan Shin-yi Chao Art & Literature 17. Tang Sources for the Study of Religious Culture: Problems and Procedures Glen Dudbridge 18. Idols in the Temple: Icons and the Cult of Confucius Julia K. Murray SECTION FIVE KEY INDIGENOUS CONCEPTS 19. Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors Arthur P. Wolf 20. Souls and Salvation: Conflicting Themes in Chinese Popular Religion Myron L. Cohen 21. Licentious Cults and Bloody Victuals: Sacrifĳice, Reciprocity, and Violence in Traditional China Terry F. Kleeman 22. Merit Accumulation in the Early Chinese Tradition Cynthia J. Brokaw

4 viii contents SECTION SIX RELIGION, STATE, AND SOCIETY 23. The Granting of Titles Valerie Hansen Volume Three 24. Worship, Teachings, and State Power in China and Taiwan Robert P. Weller 25. The De-territorialization of Ritual Spheres in Contemporary Taiwan Elana Chipman 26. Buddhism in the Reform Era: A Secularized Revival? Ji Zhe SECTION SEVEN ORTHODOXY, ORTHOPRAXY 27. Buddhist-Inspired Options: Aspects of Lay Religious Life in the Lower Yangzi from 1100 until Barend J. ter Haar 28. From Credulity to Scorn: Confucians Confront the Spirit Mediums in Late Imperial China Donald S. Sutton 29. Vernacular Fiction and the Transmission of Gods Cults in Late Imperial China Meir Shahar 30. Standardizing the Gods: The Promotion of T ien-hou ( Empress of Heaven ) Along the South China Coast, James L. Watson

5 contents ix 31. Orthopraxy and Heteropraxy beyond the State: Standardizing Ritual in Chinese Society Paul R. Katz SECTION EIGHT BELIEF, PRACTICE, RELIGIOSITY 32. Ethics and Self-Cultivation Practice in Early China Mark Csikszentmihàlyi 33. Visualizing the Afterlife: The Song Elite s Obsession with Death, the Underworld, and Salvation Hsien-huei Liao Volume Four 34. Immortals and Patriarchs: The Daoist World of a Manchu Offfĳicial and His Family in Nineteenth-Century China Xun Liu 35. The Spiritual Search in Shenzhen: Adopting and Adapting China s Common Spiritual Heritage Lizhu Fan, Evelyn Eaton Whitehead, and James D. Whitehead 36. Anshen Liming or the Religious Dimension of Confucianism Sébastien Billioud and Joël Thoraval 37. When You Drink Water, Think of Its Source : Morality, Status, and Reinvention in Rural Chinese Funerals Ellen Oxfeld SECTION NINE GENDER AND RELIGION 38. Rural Women, Old Age, and Temple Work: A Case from Northwestern Sichuan Kang Xiaofei

6 x contents 39. Patterns of Female Religious Experience in Qing Dynasty Popular Literature Beata Grant 40. The Power and Pollution of Chinese Women Emily M. Ahern 41. The Great Way of Former Heaven: A Group of Chinese Secret Religious Sects Marjorie Topley SECTION TEN ISLAM & CHRISTIANITY AND THEIR ENCOUNTER WITH CHINESE RELIGIONS 42. Follow the White Camel: Islam in China to Zvi Ben-Dor Benite 43. The Iconoclasm of Obeisance: Protestant Images of Chinese Religion and the Catholic Church Eric Reinders 44. Boxers, Christians, and the Gods: The Boxer Conflict of 1900 as a Religious War Paul A. Cohen SECTION ELEVEN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES 45. The Rise of Postmortem Retribution in China and the West Alan E. Bernstein and Paul R. Katz 46. Buddhist chanhui and Christian Confession in Seventeenth- Century China Erik Zürcher 47. Global Breathing: Religious Utopias in India and China Peter van der Veer Index Nominum

Chinese Society and Religions SOCL 280

Chinese Society and Religions SOCL 280 Accreditation through Loyola University Chicago Please Note: This is a sample syllabus, subject to change. Students will receive the updated syllabus and textbook