The Definition of Religion for the Social Scientific Study of Religion in China and Beyond

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Acknowledgments VII
4. Contents IX
5. List of Contributors XI
6. Note on Chinese Names, Terms and Transliteration XIII
7. Introduction 1
8. The Definition of Religion for the Social Scientific Study of Religion in China and Beyond 23
9. Contemporary Confucian Revival: Reflecting on the Nation, the State and Modernity 45
10. From Missionaries to Scientists: Reflections on the History of the Anglophone Study of Chinese Protestant Christianity 67
11. From Neglected Problem to Flourishing Field: Recent Developments of Research on Muslims and Islam in China 93
12. Epistemic Communities of Buddhist Scholarship in Modern China: Narratives and Paradigms 115
13. Advancing the Ethnographic Study of Han Buddhism in China 139
14. Encountering the Other in the Study of Chinese Religions: Constructing Borderland Buddhism in Chinese and Euro-American Scholarship of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 163
15. Bringing Religion Back In: Political Science and the Study of Religion in China 181
16. Chinese Political Science and the Study of Religion 205
17. For a History of Religious Ideas in Modern and Contemporary China 231
18. Index 251