Contents

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Globalization and the Religious Field in China, 1800–present

Part One Transformation of the Religious Field in China: The Changing Role of the State

Chapter 1 Managing Chinese Religious Pluralism in Nineteenth-Century City God Temples

Chapter 2 Political Religion in Twentieth-Century China and Its Global Dimension

Part Two Global Currents and Their Local Refractions

Chapter 3 The Christian Century of South China: Church, State, and Community in Chaozhou (1860–1990)

Chapter 4 Sectarian Religions and Globalization in Nineteenth-Century China: The Wanbao baojuan 萬寳寶卷 (1858) and Other Examples

Chapter 5 Beyond Globalization and Secularization: Changing Religion and Philanthropy in Lukang, Taiwan

Chapter 6 ‘Mrs. Ma’ and ‘Ms. Xu’: On the Attractiveness of Denoting Oneself a ‘Buddhist’ in the Increasingly Transnational Milieu of Urban Taiwan

Chapter 7 Globalization vs. Localization: Remaking the Cult of Confucius in Contemporary Quzhou

Chapter 8 Tibetan Buddhist Books in a Digital Age

Part Three Chinese-Western Encounters: Global Visions and Cultural Flows

Chapter 9 A Modern Ruist Religious Vision of a Global Unity: Kang Youwei’s Utopian Vision and Its Humanistic Religious Refraction in European Sinology

Chapter 10 The Buddhist-Christian Encounter in Modern China and the Globalization of Culture

Part Four Knowledge Transfer, Academic Networks, Identity, and the Study of Religions

Chapter 11 How the ‘Science of Religion’ (zongjiaoxue) as a Discipline Globalized ‘Religion’ in Late Qing and Republican China, 1890–1949—Global Concepts, Knowledge Transfer, and Local Discourses

Chapter 12 Negotiating Cultural and Religious Identities in the Encounter with the ‘Other’: Global and Local Perspectives in the Historiography of Late Qing/Early Republican Christian Missions

Chapter 13 Sino-Christian Theology: Treading a Fine Line between Self-Determination and Globalization

Index