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 …

IT is a well-documented fact—albeit perhaps not emphasized enough in scholarship—that
Japanese Buddhism, historically, often has favored and contributed to technological …

The global media has reported various institutional responses of Buddhism to COVID-19.
This paper offers a look at the grassroots of Buddhist religious activity in response to the …

This article explores the state of the field of research on digital Buddhism, contextualizing the
field within a broader scope. It discusses the present and future digital ethnographic study of …

China's burgeoning economic and security activities abroad have given rise to suspicions
and criticisms of its intentions. As Buddhism is a shared faith and heritage among many …

This paper explores lay Buddhism in contemporary rural North China through investigating
the practice and practitioners of “Buddha-chanting”(nianfo 念佛) in relation to local religion …

This case study explores the influence of a global health crisis on contemporary Taiwanese
Buddhism. As prevention and control measures of COVID-19 enforced by the Taiwanese …

This special issue of Review of Religion in Chinese Society is devoted to an examination of
the state of the field in scholarship on Chinese Buddhism since the death of Mao. It is based …

Collecting online data through social media has become a widely used methodology in
ethnographic research in the past decade. Scholars have addressed both the prospects and …