Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface VII
4. Introduction 1
5. PART 1 The Early Sources
6. CHAPTER 1 Early Daoism in Retrospect Cosmology, Ethics, and Eschatology 29
7. CHAPTER 2 Ethics and Polity The Heterodoxy of Buddhism, Maitreyanism, and the Early White Lotus 73
8. CHAPTER 3 The Origins of Ming Buddhist Schism 109
9. PART II Aspects of Popular Religion
10. CHAPTER 4 Daoism and Orthodoxy: The Loyal and Filial Sect 139
11. CHAPTER 5 Daoism and Local Cults A Case Study of the Cult of Marshal Wen 172
12. CHAPTER 6 Shamanism in the Eyes of Ming and Qing Elites 209
13. PART III Eternal Mother Religion
14. CHAPTER 7 Eternal Mother Religion: Its History and Ethics 241
15. CHAPTER 8 Religion and Politics in the White Lotus Rebellion of 1796 in Hubei 281
16. CHAPTER 9 The Triads and Their Ideology Up to the Early Nineteenth Century: A Brief History 323
17. CHAPTER 10 The Heaven and Earth Society in the Nineteenth Century: An Interpretation 365
18. CHAPTER 11 The Taipings in Chinese Sectarian Perspective 393
19. CHAPTER 12 Popular and Elite Heterodoxy Toward the End of the Qing 431
20. Afterword: The Twentieth-Century Perspective 463
21. Appendix: A Note on the Usage of the Chinese Terms for Heterodoxy 477
22. GLOSSARY 491
23. CONTRIBUTORS 507
24. INDEX 509