In recent years, there has been an astonishing revival of religious practices in China.
Looking beyond numerical counts of religious practitioners, temples, and churches …

From Comrades to Bodhisattvas is the first book-length study of Han Chinese Buddhism in
post-Mao China. Using an ethnographic approach supported by over a decade of field …

This article enhances the understanding of consumption practices, particularly gift giving,
within the context of an Islamic pilgrimage called the ziyara. Pilgrimages are rich sites of …

A growing body of research describes connections between religion and economic activity
through the language of commodification and marketization. Although this scholarship …

Malacca was a strategic seaport located in the West Coast of Malay Peninsula and in the
middle of the Straits of Malacca. Being situated between the Indian Ocean and the South …

This paper reviews research on the sociology of religion in China since the beginning of the
new century. In terms of theoretical research, there are three main themes: first, research …

Civil society is defined by Jeffrey Alexander as a “solidary sphere, in which a certain kind of
universalizing community comes to be culturally defined and to some degree institutionally …

This article argues in favour of the triangulation of emic and etic methods in the comparative
study of culture, taking China as a case. Starting from an indigenous theory of cultural …

This article re-theorises the relationships between secularity and religiosity in modernity.
While geographers have recognised that the secular and the religious are mutually …

There is a very old question in social science about whether religion is favorable or
antithetical to economic activity. There have of course been ascetic currents within all of the …