Fenggang Yang (PhD in 1997, the Catholic University of America) is Professor of Sociology and Director of Center on Religion and Chinese Society at Purdue University in Indiana. His forthcoming book is Religion in China: Survival and Revival under Communism (Oxford University Press).Graeme Lang (PhD in1979, York University) is Professor of Sociology at City University of Hong Kong. His publications on religion in China include The Rise of a Refugee God: Hong Kong’s Wong Tai Sin (Oxford University Press, 1993).

• ContentsIntroductionGraeme Lang and Fenggang YangPart I: Methodological and Theoretical ChallengesChapter 1: Thirty Years of Religious Studies in ChinaHe GuanghuChapter 2: History as a Factor in the Social Scientific Study of Chinese ReligionJ. Gordon MeltonChapter 3: Explanations of International Differences in Rleigion That May Apply to ChinaV.A. Daniel OlsonChapter 4: The Dilemma of Chinese Religious Studies within the Framework of Western Religious TheoriesFan LizhuChapter 5: Religion in China: Some Introductory Notes for the Intrepid Western ScholarEileen BarkerChapter 6: Local Ritual Traditions of Southeast China: A Challenge to Definitions of Religion and Theories of RitualKenneth DeanPart II: Identities, Organizations, and SocietiesChapter 7: Contemporary Chinese Beliefs and Spiritual Pursuits TodayYuan YueChapter 8: Exploring the Relationship between Religion and Ethnicity in ChinaHe QimlinChapter 9: From Grassroots Association to Civil Society Organization: A Case Study of the Hebei Province Dragon Tablet FairGao Bingzhong and Ma QiangChapter 10: On the Problem of Developing a Mechanism for the Participation of Religion in the Social Services SectorLiu PengChapter 11: Religion and Environmentalism in Chinese SocietiesGraeme Lang and Lu YunfengChapter 12: Secular State and Religious Society in Mainland China and TaiwanRichard Madsen