Chinese Religions in Contemporary Societies
James Miller, ed. Chinese Religions in Contemporary Societies, Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO Press, 2006. Print US$85.00 1851096264; eBook US$90.00 1851096310
Chinese Religions in Contemporary Societies is a comprehensive introduction to the resurgence of religion in China and Taiwan since the end of the Cultural Revolution and a wide-ranging examination of the impact of religious traditions on Euro-Americans and Chinese immigrants in present-day North America.
Table of Contents
| James MILLER | Introduction | 1 |
| James MILLER | 1. The historical legacy of Chinas religious traditions | 9 |
| James MILLER | 2. The opium of the people: religion, science and modernity | 31 |
| TAM Wai Lun | 3. Local religion in contemporary China | 57 |
| Ven. Jing Yin | 4. Buddhism and economic reform in mainland China | 85 |
| KIM Sung-Hae | 5. Daoist monasticism in contemporary China | 101 |
| Alison MARSHALL | 6. Shamanism on contemporary Taiwan | 123 |
| David PALMER | 7. Body cultivation in contemporary China | 147 |
| Francis YIP | 8. Protestant Christianity in contemporary China | 175 |
| Terry WOO | 9. Women in contemporary Chinese religions | 207 |
| Jonathan LEE | 10. Contemporary Chinese-American religious life | 235 |
| Elijah SIEGLER | 11. Chinese traditions in Euro-American society | 257 |
| HE Xiang and James MILLER | 12. Confucian spirituality in an ecological age | 281 |
| Index | 301 |
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| About the authors | 317 |