Social scientific studies of religion in China
Subtitle: methodology, theories, and findings
By: edited by Fenggang Yang and Graeme Lang
Series: Religion in Chinese societies
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004182462
Subjects: Religion; Congresses; Religion and sociology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Years of religious studies in China / Guanghu He; title: History as a factor in the social scientific study of Chinese religion / J. Gordon Melton; title: Explanations of international differences in religion that may apply to China / V.A. Daniel Olson; title: The dilemma of pursuing Chinese religious studies within the framework of Western religious theories / Lizhu Fan; title: Religion in China : some introductory notes for the intrepid western scholar / Eileen Barker; title: Local ritual traditions of southeast China : a challenge to definitions of religion and theories of ritual / Kenneth Dean; title: Contemporary Chinese beliefs and spiritual pursuits / Victor Yuan; title: Exploring the relationship between religion and ethnicity in China / Qimin He; title: From grassroots association to civil society organization : a case study of the Hebei Province Dragon Tablet Fair / Gao Bingzhong and Ma Qiang; title: On the problem of developing a mechanism for the participation of religion in the social services sector / Liu Peng; title: Religion and environmentalism in Chinese societies / Graeme Lang and Yunfeng Lu; title: Secular state and religious society in mainland China and Taiwan / Richard Madsen.