Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Series Editors’ Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. Chapter One Inventing the Founding Ancestor The Lives of Zhang Daoling 13
8. Chapter Two The Rise of Longhushan 33
9. Chapter Three The Heavenly Masters in the History of Daoist Ordinations 53
10. Chapter Four New Rituals and the Longhushan Synthesis of Modern Daoism 91
11. Chapter Five The Mature Institution: Longhushan during the Song-Yuan Period 129
12. Chapter Six The Most Powerful Heavenly Master Ever? The Lives of Zhang Yuchu 157
13. Chapter Seven The Institution under the Ming and the Qing 185
14. Chapter Eight The Heavenly Masters and Late Imperial Chinese Society 219
15. Chapter Nine The Predicaments of Modernity The Heavenly Masters since the 1850s 265
16. Conclusion 289
17. Appendices
18. Appendix 1. List of the Heavenly Masters 299
19. Appendix 2. The Different Versions of the Tiantan yuge 303
20. Notes 305
21. Bibliography 375
22. Index 409