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Research on Chinese religions is a fast expanding
and vibrant field. This anthology gathers both
classical pieces of scholarship and very recent
articles that illustrate the various disciplinary
approaches (history, sociology, anthropology,
political sciences, arts and literature), theories
and themes that are shaping the field today.
Topics covered include the Three teachings
(Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism) as well as
so-called ‘popular religion’ throughout history,
but the overall focus is on how scholars make
sense of the variety of religious practices and
beliefs to analyze the place of religion in Chinese
societies.
Readership: All libraries catering to students
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Vincent Goossaert Ph.D. (EPHE, 1997) is a
historian of modern Chinese religions. He is
Deputy Director of the Societies-ReligionsSecularisms Institute (GSRL, Paris). He has
published among other books The Religious
Question in Modern China (Chicago, 2011, with David
Palmer).
Critical Readings on Chinese Religions
Volume 1
Volume 3
INTRODUCTION
Vincent Goossaert
24. Weller, R., “Worship, Teachings, and State Power in China and
Taiwan”, in Kirby, W. C., ed., Realms of Freedom in Modern China
(Stanford University Press, 2005), pp. 28525. Chipman, E., “The De-Territorialization of Ritual Spheres in
Contemporary Taiwan”, Asian Anthropology, Vol. 8 (2009), pp.
31-64.
26. Ji, Z., “Buddhism in the Reform Era: a secularized revival?”,
in Chau, A. Y., ed., Religion in Contemporary China: revitalization
and innovation (Routledge, 2011), Chapter 2, pp. 32-52.
SECTION ONE: DEFINITIONS
1. Feuchtwang, S., “A Chinese religion exists”, in Baker, H. D.
R., Feuchtwang, S., eds., Old State in New Settings: Studies in the
Social Anthropology of China (JASO, Occasional Paper Series, No.
8, 1991), Chapter 3, pp. 139-60.
2. Campany, R. F., “On the Very Idea of Religions (In the Modern
West and in Early Medieval China)”, History of Religions, Vol.
42, No. 4 (2003), pp. 287-319.
3. Lagerwey, J., “Questions of Vocabulary, or How shall we
talk about Chinese Religion?”, in Lai, Chi Tim, ed., Daojiao yu
minjian zongjiao yanjiu lunji (Xuefeng wenhua, 1999), pp. 165-181.
4. Chau, A. Y., “Modalities of Doing Religion”, in Palmer, D.
A., Shive, G., Wickeri, P. L., eds., Chinese Religious Life Oxford
University Press, 2011), pp. 67-84.
SECTION TWO: HISTORICAL OUTLINES
5. Schipper, K., “The Story of the Way”, in Little, S., Eichman,
S., eds., Taoism and the Arts of China (Art Institute of Chicago,
2000), pp. 33-55.
6. Von Glahn, R., “The Song Transformation of Chinese
Religious Culture”, in Von Glahn, R., The Sinister Way: The
Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious Culture (University of
California Press, 2004), Chapter V, pp. 130-179.
7. Palmer, D., “Chinese Redemptive Societies and Salvationist
Religion: Historical Phenomenon or Sociological Category?”,
Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore / Minsu quyi, Vol.
172 (2011), pp. 21–72.
SECTION THREE: HISTORIOGRAPHY
8. Dean, K., Zhenman Z., “Historical Introduction to the Return
of the Gods”, in Dean, K., Zhenman Z., Ritual Alliances of the
Putian Plain (Brill, 2010, 2 Vols.), Chapter I, pp. 3-40.
9. Ownby, D., “Imperial Fantasies: The Chinese Communists and
Peasant Rebellions”, Comparative Studies in Society and History,
Vol. 43 (2001), pp. 65-91.
10. Yang, F., “Between Secularist Ideology and Desecularizing
Reality: Between Birth and Growth of Religious Research in
Communist China”, Sociology of Religion, Vol. 65 (2004), pp. 101-119.
11. Szonyi, M., “Secularization Theories and the Study of
Chinese Religions”, Social Compass, Vol. 56, No. 3 (2009), pp.
312-327.
12. Clart, P., “The Concept of ‘Popular Religion’ in the Study
of Chinese Religions: Retrospects and Prospects”, in
Wesolowski, Z., ed., The Fourth Fu Jen University Sinological
Symposium: Research on Religions in China: Status Quo and
Perspectives, (Fu Jen Catholic University Press, 2007), pp. 166204. Reprinted with permission from Wesolowski, Z.
Volume 2
SECTION FOUR: DISCIPLINARY APPROACHES
Sociology
13. Yang, C.K., “Diffused and Institutional Religion in Chinese
Society”, in Yang, C.K., Religion in Chinese Society (University of
California Press, 1961), Chapter 12, pp. 294-340.
14. Madsen, R., “Religious Renaissance and Taiwan’s Modern
Middle Classes”, in Mei-hui Yang, M. ed., Chinese Religiosities:
Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation (University of
California Press, 2008), pp. 295-322.
Anthropology
15. Yang, D.-R., “The Changing Economy of Temple Daoism in
Shanghai”, in Fenggang, Y., Tamney, J. B., eds., State, Market, and
Religions in Chinese Societies (Brill, 2005), Chapter 5, pp. 113-148.
16. Chao, S.-y., “A Danggi Temple in Taipei: Spirit-Mediums in
Modern Urban Taiwan”, Asia Major, Third Series, Vol. 15 No. 2
(2002), pp. 129-156.
Art & Literature
17. Dudbridge, G., “Tang Sources for the Study of Religious
Culture: Problems and Procedures”, Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie,
Vol. 12 (2001), pp. 141-154.
18. Murray, J. K., “‘Idols’ in the Temple: Icons and the Cult of
Confucius”, Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2 (2009), pp.
371-411.
SECTION FIVE: KEY INDIGENOUS CONCEPTS
19. Wolf, A. P., “Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors”, in Wolf, A. P., ed.,
Religion and Ritual in Chinese Society (Stanford University Press,
1974), pp. 131-182.
20. Cohen, M. L., “Souls and Salvation. Conflicting Themes in
Chinese Popular Religion”, in Watson, J., Rawski, E., eds.,
Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China (University of
California Press, 1988), Chapter 8, pp. 180-202.
21. Kleeman, T. F., “Licentious Cults and Bloody Victuals:
Sacrifice, Reciprocity, and Violence in Traditional China”,
Asia Major, Third Series, Vol. 7 No. 1 (1994), pp. 185-211.
22. Brokaw, C. J., “Merit Accumulation in the Early Chinese
Tradition”, in Brokaw, C. J., The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit.
Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China (Princeton
University Press, 1991), Chapter 1, pp **-60.
SECTION SIX: RELIGION, STATE AND SOCIETY
23. Hansen, V., “The Granting of Titles”, in Hansen, V., Changing
Gods in Medieval China, 1127-1276 (Princeton University Press,
1990), Chapter 4, pp. 79-104.
SECTION SEVEN: ORTHODOXY, ORTHOPRACY
27. Ter Haar, B., “Buddhist-Inspired Options: Aspects of Lay
Religious Life in the Lower Yangzi from 1100 until 1340”,
T’oung Pao, Second Series, Vol. 87, No.1 (2001), pp. 92-152.
28. Sutton, D. S., “From Credulity to Scorn: Confucians Confront
the Spirit Mediums in Late Imperial China”, Late Imperial
China, Vol. 21, No. 2 (2000), pp. 1-39.
29. Shahar, M., “‘Vernacular Fiction and the Transmission of
Gods’ Cults in Late Imperial China”, in Shahar, M., Weller, R.
P., eds., Unruly Gods. Divinity and Society in China (University of
Hawai’i Press, 1996), Chapter 6, pp. 184-211.
30. Watson. J. L., “Standardizing the Gods: The Promotion of
T’ien-Hou (‘Empress of Heaven’) along the South China Coast,
960-1960”, in Johnson, D., Nathan A. J., Rawski, E. S., eds.,
Popular Culture in Late Imperial China (University of California
Press, 1995), Chapter 10, pp. 292-324.
31. Katz, P. R., “Orthopraxy and Heteropraxy beyond the State:
Standardizing Ritual in Chinese Society”, Modern China, Vol.
33, No. 1 (2007), pp. 72-90.
SECTION EIGHT: BELIEF, PRACTICE, RELIGIOSITY
32. Csikszentmihàlyi, M., “Ethics and Self-cultivation Practice in
Early China”, in Lagerwey, J., ed., Early Chinese Religion (Brill,
2009), pp. 519-542.
33. Liao, H.-h., “Visualizing the Afterlife: The Song Elite’s
Obsession with Death, the Underworld, and Salvation”,
Chinese Studies 漢學研究, Vol. 20 No. 1 (2002), pp. 399-440.
Volume 4
34. Liu, X., “Immortals and Patriarchs: The Daoist World of
a Manchu Official and His Family in Nineteenth Century
China”, Asia Major, Third Series, Vol. 17, No. 2 (2004), pp. 161-218.
35. Lizhu, F., Eaton Whitehead, E., Whitehead, J.D., “The Spiritual
Search in Shenzhen. Adopting and Adapting China’s Common
Spiritual Heritage”, Nova Religio, Vol.9 No. 2 (2005), pp. 50-61.
36. Billioud, S., Thoraval, J., “Anshen liming or the Religious
Dimension of Confucianism”, China Perspectives, Vol. 3 (2008),
pp. 88-106.
37. Oxfeld, E., “‘When You Drink Water, Think of Its Source’:
Morality, Status, and Reinvention in Rural Chinese Funerals”,
Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 63, No. 4 (2004), pp. 961-90.
SECTION TEN: ISLAM & CHRISTIANITY AND THEIR ENCOUNTER
WITH CHINESE RELIGIONS
42. Ben-Dor Benite, Z., “Follow the White Camel: Islam in China
to 1800”, The New Cambridge History of Islam, Vol. 3 (2010), pp.
409-426.
43. Reinders, E., “The Iconoclasm of Obeisance: Protestant
Images of Chinese Religion and the Catholic Church”, Numen,
Vol. 44, No. 3 (1997), pp. 296-322.
44. Cohen, P.A., “Boxers, Christians, and the Gods: The Boxer
Conflict of 1900 as a Religious War”, in Cohen, P.A., ed., China
Unbound: Evolving Perspectives on the Chinese Past (Routledge
Curzon, 2003), pp. 105-130.
SECTION NINE: GENDER AND RELIGION
38. Kang, X., “Rural Women, Old Age, and Temple Work: A Case
from Northwestern Sichuan”, China Perspectives, Vol. 4 (2009),
pp. 42-53.
39. Grant, B., “Patterns of Female Religious Experience in QingDynasty Popular Literature”, Journal of Chinese Religions, Vol.
23 (1995), pp. 29-58.
40. Ahern, E. M., “The Power and Pollution of Chinese Women”,
in Wolf, M., Witke, R., eds., Women in Chinese Society (Stanford
University Press, 1975), pp. 193-214.
41. Topley, M., “The Great Way of Former Heaven: a Group of
Chinese Secret Religious Sects”, Bulletin of the School of Oriental
and African Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2 (1963), pp. 362-392.
SECTION ELEVEN: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES
45. Bernstein, A. E., Katz, P. R., “The Rise of Postmortem
Retribution in China and the West”, The Medieval History
Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2 (2010), pp. 199-257.
46. Zürcher, E., “Buddhist chanhui and Christian Confession in
Seventeenth-Century China”, in Standaert, N., Dudink, A.,
eds., Forgive Us Our Sins. Confession in Late Ming and Early Qing
China (Institut Monumenta Serica, Monograph Series 55,
2006), pp. 103-129.
47. Van der Veer, P., “Global Breathing. Religious Utopias in India
and China”, Anthropological Theory, Vol. 7, No. 3 (2007), pp. 315328.