Handbook on Religion in China

Edited by Stephan Feuchtwang, London School of Economics, UK

• Contents:Introduction to the Handbook on Religion in China 1Stephan FeuchtwangPART I STATE POLICIES, CIVIC SOCIETY AND CULTURALREVIVAL1 Religious policy in China 17Richard Madsen2 Philanthropy and the religious life of goodness in China 34Robert P. Weller, C. Julia Huang and Keping Wu3 Remaking the self: spirituality, civilization and the Chinesequest for the good life in the reform era 54Anna Iskra, Fabian Winiger and David A. Palmer4 The contemporary Confucian revival in perspective 75Sébastien Billioud5 Heritage and religion in China 96Yujie ZhuPART II REVITALIZED AND MODERNIZING TRADITIONS6 Life-cycle rituals in rural and urban China: birth, marriageand death 110Ellen Oxfeld7 Temples and festivals in rural and urban China 132Adam Yuet Chau8 Fate, destiny and divination 156William Matthews9 Redemptive societies 184Matthias SchumannPART III DAOISM, BUDDHISM, TIBET, THE NAXI10 Household ritual specialists 214Stephen Jones11 Daoism and Daoist organisations 244Stephan Feuchtwang12 Chinese Buddhism in the post-Mao era: preserving andreinventing the received tradition 255Daniela Campo13 Tibetan religions on the Qing-zang Plateau 281Chen Bo14 Migration myth and ancestral roads in southwest China 300Peter Guangpei RanPART IV ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY15 Hui Muslims and Han converts: Islam and the paradox ofrecognition 313Guangtian Ha16 Uyghur religion 338Ildikó Bellér-Hann17 Protestant Christianities in contemporary China 361R.G. Tiedemann18 Rural to urban Protestant house churches in China 407Jie Kang19 Chinese Catholicism 431Richard MadsenIndex 449

‘It is notable that at one time scholars of China thought religion would wither and possibly die out - but this was mistaken. Religion simply went underground during the earlier phase of the People’s Republic of China, only to re-emerge in significant forms afterwards. This particular volume explains that fully. The book collates a number of very valuable contributions and is highly recommended.’