Globalization and the Making of Religious Modernity in China: Transnational Religions, Local Agents, and the Study of Religion, 1800-Present

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