Winner of the 2015 Pierre-Antoine Bernheim Prize for the History of Religion by the
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres After a century during which Confucianism was …

Anarchy in the Pure Land investigates the twentieth-century reinvention of the cult of
Maitreya, the future Buddha, conceived by the reformer Taixu and promoted by the Chinese …

This essays looks at the diversity of approaches used by the Chinese Communist Party
(CCP) in its politicization of religions. It first provides an overview of continuity with past …

The history of state-religion relations in Taiwan from 1945 to the present can be divided into
three stages. The first stage lasted from 1945 to 1987 during which the Leninist state, for the …

This article looks at Ciji (Tzu Chi), a Taiwanese Buddhist charity which has been active in
China since 1991. Ciji's presence in China is all the more remarkable in view of outbreaks of …

This chapter starts from the premise that some 80 percent of the world's population affirms
some kind of religious identification, a percentage that is growing rather than declining …

Shih Chien University, Taipei, Taiwan philtsai@ g2. usc. edu. tw ABSTRACT:“Transitional
justice” indicates legal and administrative provisions a newly established democratic country …

This essay argues that differences in religious ecologies, between China and the polities of
Taiwan and Hong Kong are necessary but insufficient explanations for their different …

Although a recent body of scholarship focuses on how business professionals infuse
spiritual practices in their workplaces, comparatively little attention has been paid to faith in …

We propose in this chapter that the relationship between religion and nationalism in Taiwan
has been mediated by two developments that pull in different directions. The first is state …