The interaction between religion and the new media has affected the perception that society
has of religion, changed cardinal structures in the relationship between religious practice …

This book presents a multi-sited ethnographic study of the global development of the
Taiwanese Buddhist order Fo Guang Shan. It explores the order's modern Buddhist social …

The study of Buddhism in modern Sichuan has been limited mostly to a few case studies
and places. However, in-depth research reveals a richer picture, involving several rural and …

Between the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century China
experienced an important moment of transformation, involving shifts in the political system …

Southeast China is a traditional stronghold of Buddhism, but little scholarly attention has
been paid to this fact. Brian Nichols's pioneering book, Lotus Blossoms and Purple Clouds …

This chapter examines the curious yet extremely potent concept and operations of the
“religion sphere”(zongjiaojie 宗教界) in modern and contemporary China. 1 Unlike the …