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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. 1. Making Religion, Making the State in Modern China: An Introductory Essay 1
5. 2. The Politics of Religion: Late-Imperial Origins of the Regulatory State 22
6. 3. Positioning Religion in Modernity: State and Buddhism in China 43
7. 4. The Catholic Pilgrimage to Sheshan 74
8. 5. Pathways to the Pulpit: Leadership Training in “Patriotic” and Unregistered Chinese Protestant Churches 96
9. 6. Institutionalizing Modern “Religion” in China’s Buddhism: Political Phases of a Local Revival 126
10. 7. Islam in China: State Policing and Identity Politics 151
11. 8. Further Partings of the Way: The Chinese State and Daoist Ritual Traditions in Contemporary China 179
12. 9. Expanding the Space of Popular Religion: Local Temple Activism and the Politics of Legitimation in Contemporary Rural China 211
13. 10. The Creation and Reemergence of Qigong in China 241
14. Character List 267
15. Contributors 278
16. Index 281