List of Maps, Images, and Tables

pp.：  9 – 12

Timeline of Chinese Dynasties

pp.：  13 – 14

Acknowledgments

pp.：  15 – 16

PART ONE THE GODS RETURN (by Kenneth Dean)

pp.：  17 – 298

Chapter One Introduction: The Survey and its Main Findings

pp.：  19 – 56

Chapter Two Definitions of Religion in China

pp.：  57 – 68

Chapter Three Historical Overview

pp.：  69 – 166

Chapter Four Contemporary Ritual Events in the Putian Plains: The Ritual Event

pp.：  167 – 170

Chapter Five Ritual Specialists

pp.：  171 – 192

Chapter Six Gods and Cults

pp.：  193 – 222

Chapter Seven Temples, Monasteries and Processions

pp.：  223 – 234

Chapter Eight Lineage and Territorial Connections

pp.：  235 – 244

Chapter Nine Transnational Networks

pp.：  245 – 270

Chapter Ten Conclusions: Ritual and Modernity

pp.：  271 – 298

PART TWO LINEAGE AND RELIGION ON THE PUTIAN PLAINS: AN ANALYSIS BASED ON STONE INSCRIPTIONS (by Zheng Zhenman, translated by Kenneth Dean)

pp.：  299 – 384

Introduction

pp.：  301 – 304

Buddhism and powerful lineages in the early period

pp.：  305 – 315

Song Ming NeoConfucianism and Lineage Ancestral halls

pp.：  316 – 332

The altar of the soil and the harvest of the Sub-cantons and the system of temples dedicated to popular gods

pp.：  333 – 353

Conclusions

pp.：  354 – 356

Appendix One: Legends of the main surnames of the Putian plain (based on the account in Zhang Qin's Putian xianzhi)

pp.：  357 – 370

Appendix Two: A recently carved stone inscription from Shiting, Putian

pp.：  371 – 384

Bibliography

pp.：  385 – 400

Glossary

pp.：  401 – 416

Index of key terms, proper names, and place names

pp.：  417 – 453