Yoshiko Ashiwa is professor emeritus at Hitotsubashi University and visiting professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo.David L. Wank is professor emeritus at Sophia University and visiting researcher at the Oriental Library, Tokyo.Ashiwa and Wank have worked together extensively, including coediting Making Religion, Making the State: The Politics of Religion in Modern China (2009).

• AcknowledgmentsConventionsGlossary of Temple Names in Xiamen CityIntroductionPart I: Concept, Spaces, History1. Themes and Concepts of the Study2. Physical and Semiotic Spaces of Nanputuo Temple3. Institutional Space and Nanputuo Temple’s Historical CapitalPart II: Recovery and Development of Nanputuo Temple4. Revival of Buddhist Practice and Education, 1982–19895. Expansion and Conflict in the Space of Religion, 1989–19956. Aligning with the Central State, 1996–2004Part III: Nanputuo Temple and Local Buddhist Communities7. Dynamism of Local Temples8. Devotees and Lay Nuns9. The Guanyin Festival: Being Buddhist the Chinese WayConclusionAppendix 1: Leaders of Nanputuo Temple, 1684–Appendix 2: Nanputuo Temple, a Millennium of Construction and RenewalAppendix 3: Buddhist College of Minnan Curriculum, 1989Appendix 4: Ordination Ceremony Schedule, October 13–29, 1989, Guanghua TempleNotesReferencesIndex

Based on extraordinarily rich ethnography, deep historical research, and a subtle theoretical framework, The Space of Religion shows how one of China’s most important temples reemerged, changed, and caused transformations of its political and cultural contexts over the past several decades. It makes a major advance toward understanding the surprising and consequential rise of a dynamic space for religion in China.