Chinese Religions and Welfare Regimes Beyond the PRC

André Laliberté is Professor of comparative politics at the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He has co-edited “Buddhism in China after Mao” with Ji Zhe and Gareth Fisher and “The Study of Religion in China” with Stefania Travagnin. In 2019, he was Senior Research Fellow for the Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe "Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities" in Leipzig.

• Part I. Secularity and Buddhist Philanthropy.- 1. Multiple Chinese Secularities.- 2. Welfare, Religious, and the Liminality of Philanthropy.- 3. Welfare Regimes in Chinese Societies.- 4. Buddhism and Welfare in Comparative Perspective.- Part II. Chinese Buddhist Philanthropy Beyond the PRC.- 5. The state, religious, and welfare in ancient and imperial times.- 6. Welfare insecurity and religious during the Republican period.- 7. The state and religious Philanthropy in Taiwan since 1949.- 8. Welfare and Chinese religions in Post-Colonial contexts.- 9. The variety of Chinese welfare regimes and Buddhism.- 10. Multiple Chinese Secularities.