A Summary of French Studies on Chinese Religion
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As is well known, France has always been the center of European sinology. The study of Chinese religion has always been an important part of French sinology. Scholars outside of sinology are beginning to study Chinese religion, from various disciplinary perspectives. The importance of religion for Chinese society has also been recognized in recent years. In this context, focusing on the relations between religion and society, this article attempts to offer a brief summary of French studies on Chinese religion.
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Allès Élisabeth. 1999. “Les Dounganes et la cérémonie du mariage: Un exemple d’identités multiples.” Perspectives chinoises, no. 56: 62–69.
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——. 2000. Musulmans de Chine: Une anthropologie des Hui du Henan. Paris: Éditions EHESS.
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——. 2005. “The Chinese-speaking Muslims (Dungan) of Central Asia: A Case of Multiple Identities in a Changing Context.” Asian Ethnicity 6 (2): 121–134.
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——. 2008. “Notes sur la Zhehelinye (Jahriyya) au Xinjiang.” Études Orientales, no. 25: 211–222.
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——. 2011. “Des musulmans de langue chinoise entre Chine et Asie centrale.” Revue relations internationales, no. 145: 105–117.
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Arrault Alain, . 2000. “Famille chinoise: famille confucéenne? Quelques remarques au sujet du culte des ancêtres, du système de parenté, des rites et de l’éducation dans la famille chinoise.” In Family Structures, Demography, and Population: A Comparison of Societies in Asia and Europe, edited by Capron C., and Neven M., pp. 51–71. Liège: Laboratoire de démographie de l’Université de Liège - Fondation européenne des sciences.
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——. 2008. “Analytic Essay on the Domestic Statuary of Central Hunan. The Cult to Divinities, Parents and Masters.” Journal of Chinese Religions 36: 1–53.
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——. 2012. “La société locale vue à travers la statuaire domestique du Hunan.” In “Religions et société locale: Études interdisciplinaires sur la région centrale du Hunan,” edited by Alain Arrault. Special issue. Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie 19: 47–132.
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Baptandier Brigitte. 1988. La Dame-du-Bord-de-l’Eau. Nanterre: Société d’Ethnologie.
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——. 2003. “Façonner la divinité en soi. À la recherche d’un lieu d’énonciation.” In “Negotiating Transcendence/Négocier la transcendance: Expressions de la performance extatique dans la religion et le théâtre,” edited by A. Marshall. Special issue. Ethnologies 25 (1): 109–152.
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——. 2008. The Lady of Linshui: A Chinese Female Cult. Translated by K. I. Fryklund. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
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Billioud Sébastien. 2007. “Confucianism, ‘Cultural Tradition’ and Official Discourses at the Start of the New Century.” China Perspectives, no. 2007/3: 50–65; Perspectives chinoises, no. 2007/3: 53–68.
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——. 2011. “Le rôle de l’éducation dans le projet salvateur du Yiguandao.” Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident 33: 211–232.
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Billioud Sébastien, , and Thoraval Joël. 2007. “The Contemporary Revival of Confucianism (part 1). Jiaohua: The Confucian Revival in China as an Educative Project.” China Perspectives, no. 2007/4: 4–20; Perspectives chinoises, no. 2007/4: 4–21.
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——. 2008. “The Contemporary Revival of Confucianism (part 2). Anshen liming or the Religious Dimension of Confucianism.” China Perspectives, no. 2008/3: 88–106; Perspectives chinoises, no. 2008/3: 96–116.
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——. 2009. “The Contemporary Revival of Confucianism (part 3). Lijiao: The Return of Ceremonies Honouring Confucius in Mainland China.” China Perspectives, no. 2009/4: 82–99; Perspectives chinoises, no. 2009/4: 87–107.
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Borchert Thomas. 2010. “The Abbot’s New House: Thinking about How Religion Works among Buddhists and Ethnic Minorities in Southwest China.” Journal of Church and State 52 (1): 112–137.
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Bujard Marianne. 2000. Le sacrifice au Ciel dans la Chine ancienne: Théorie et pratique sous les Han occidentaux. Paris: EFEO.
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——. 2008. “State and Local Cults in Han Religion.” In Early Chinese Religion, Part One: Shang through Han (1250 BC–220 AD), edited by Lagerwey J., and Kalinowski M., pp. 777–811. Leiden: Brill.
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Campo Daniela. 2013. La construction de la sainteté dans la Chine moderne: La vie du maître bouddhiste Xuyun. Paris: Les Belles Lettres.
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Chavannes Edouard. 1910. Le T’ai shan: Essai de monographie d’un culte chinois. Paris: E. Leroux.
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Chayet Anne. 1993. La femme au temps des Dalaï-lamas. Paris: Stock-L. Pernoud.
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Dean Kenneth. 1995. Taoist Ritual and Popular Cults of Southeast China. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
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Durand-Dastès Vincent. 2002. “Désirés, raillés, corrigés: Les bonzes dévoyés dans le roman en langue vulgaire du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle.” Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident 24: 95–112.
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——. 2004. “L’interminable leçon d’un bonze de papier: Bodhidharma comme héraut confucéen dans un roman didactique du XVIIe siècle.” In Éducation et instruction en Chine 3: aux marges de l’orthodoxie, edited by Despeux C., and Nguyen-Tri C., 125–143. Paris: Peeters.
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——. 2008. La conversion de l’orient: Un périple didactique de Bodhidharma dans un roman chinois en langue vulgaire du XVIIe siècle. Brussels: Institut Belge des Hautes Études chinoises.
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Dutournier Guillaume. 2011. “Les ‘écoles familiales’ en Chine continentale et à Taiwan: triple regard sur un traditionalisme éducatif.” Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident 33: 170–208.
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Dutournier Guillaume, , and Ji Zhe. 2009. “Social Experimentation and ‘Popular Confucianism.’ The Case of Lujiang Cultural Education Centre.” China Perspectives, no. 2009/4: 67–81; Perspectives chinoises, no. 2009/4: 71–86.
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Faure David. 2007. Emperor and Ancestor: State and Lineage in South China. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
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Fava Patrice. 2005. La revanche de Han Xin: Un mystère taoïste. Documentary film. Meudon: CNRS Images. DVD.
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——. 2014. Aux portes du Ciel. La statuaire taoïste du Hunan: Art et anthropologie de la Chine. Paris: Les Belles Lettres.
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Favraud Georges. 2013. “Une communauté villageoise et ses transmissions généalogiques et rituelles dans la construction de la modernité chinoise (Hunan, Liling, du XIXe siècle à nos jours).” PhD diss., University of Paris West, Nanterre.
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Feuchtwang Stephan. 2008. “Suggestions for a Redefinition of Charisma.” In Goossaert and Ownby 2008, pp. 90–105.
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Feuchtwang Stephan, , and Wang Mingming. 2001. Grassroots Charisma: Four Local Leaders in China. London: Routledge.
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Formoso Bernard. 2010. De Jiao, A Religious Movement in Contemporary China and Overseas: Purple Qi from the East. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press.
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Goossaert Vincent. 1997. “La création du taoïsme moderne: L’ordre Quanzhen.” PhD diss., École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris.
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——. 2001. “The Invention of an Order: Collective Identity in Thirteenth-Century Quanzhen.” Journal of Chinese Religions 29: 111–138.
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——. 2002. “Anatomie d’un discours anticlérical: Le Shenbao, 1872–1878.” Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident 24: 113–131.
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——. 2003. “Le destin de la religion chinoise au 20e siècle.” Social Compass 50 (4): 429–440.
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——. 2004. “Bureaucratic Charisma: The Zhang Heavenly Master Institution and Court Taoists in Late-Qing China.” Asia Major, 3rd series, 17 (2): 121–159.
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——. 2005. “Les fausses séparations de l’État et de la religion en Chine, 1898–2004.” In De la séparation des Églises et de l’État à l’avenir de la laïcité, edited by Baubérot J., and Wieviorka M., pp. 49–58. Paris: L’Aube.
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——. 2006a. “1898: The Beginning of the End for Chinese Religion?” Journal of Asian Studies 65 (2): 307–336.
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——. 2006b. “Jindai Zhongguo de guojia yu zongjiao: zongjiao zhengce yu xueshu dianfan” 近代中國的國家與宗教: 宗教政策與學術典範. Zhongyang Yanjiuyuan Jindaishi Yanjiusuo Jikan 中央研究院近代史研究所集刊 54: 169–209.
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——. 2007a. “Les mutations de la religion confucianiste (1898–1937).” In Le nouvel âge de Confucius: Modern Confucianism in China and South Korea, edited by Blanchon and R.-R. Park-Barjot, pp. 163–172. Paris: PUPS.
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—— 2007b. “L’invention des ‘religions’ en Chine moderne.” In La pensée en Chine aujourd’hui, edited by Cheng A., pp. 185–213. Paris: Gallimard.
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——. 2008. “Mapping Charisma among Chinese Religious Specialists.” In Goossaert and Ownby 2008, pp. 12–28.
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——. 2010a. “Bureaucratie, taxation et justice. Taoïsme et construction de l’État au Jiangnan (Chine), XVIIe–XIXe siècle.” Annales: Histoire, sciences sociales 4: 999–1027.
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——. 2010b. “Laïcité et invention de la ‘religion’. Les Associations religieuses nationales chinoises créées en 1912.” In La modernité contre la religion? Pour une nouvelle approche de la religion, edited by Lagrée J., and Portier P., pp. 205–222. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes.
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——. 2010c. “Qingdai Jiangnan diqu de chenghuangmiao, Zhang tianshi ji daojiao guanliao tixi” 清代江南地區的城隍廟、張天師及道教官僚體系. Qingshi yanjiu 清史研究 2010/1: 1–11.
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——. 2011. “The Heavenly Master, Canonization, and the Daoist Construction of Local Religion in Late Imperial Jiangnan.” Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie 20: 229–245.
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Goossaert Vincent, , and Fang Ling. 2008. “Les réformes funéraires et la politique religieuse de l’État chinois, 1900–2008.” Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions 144: 51–73.
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Goossaert Vincent, , and Ownby David, eds. 2008. “Mapping Charisma in Chinese Religion.” Special issue. Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 12 (2).
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Goossaert Vincent, , and Palmer David A.. 2011. The Religious Question in Modern China. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. (French translation: La question religieuse en Chine. Paris: Éditions CNRS, 2012.)
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Granet Marcel. (1919) 1982. Fêtes et chansons anciennes de la Chine. Paris: Albin Michel.
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——. (1922) 2010. La religion des Chinois. Paris: Albin Michel.
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——. 1926. Danses et légendes de la Chine ancienne. Paris: F. Alcan.
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——. (1929) 1998. La civilisation chinoise: La vie publique et la vie privée. Paris: Albin Michel.
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——. (1934) 1999. La pensée chinoise. Paris: Albin Michel.
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——. 1953. Études sociologiques sur la Chine. Paris: Presses universitaires de France.
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Gros Stéphane, . 2007. “The Missing Share. The Ritual Language of Sharing as a ‘Total Social Fact’ in the Eastern Himalayas.” In Social Dynamics in the Highlands of Southeast Asia: Reconsidering “Political Systems of Highland Burma” by E. R. Leach, edited by Sadan M., and Robinne F., pp. 257–282. Leiden: Brill.
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——. 2010. Review of “Comme le sel, je suis le cours de l’eau”: Le chamanisme à écriture des Yi du Yunnan (Chine), by Aurélie Névot. China Perspectives, no. 2010/2. http://chinaperspectives.revues.org/5288 (accessed 31 January 2014).
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——. 2012. La part manquante: échanges et pouvoirs chez les Drung du Yunnan (Chine). Nanterre: Société d’Ethnologie.
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Herrou Adeline. 2005. La vie entre soi: Les moines taoïstes aujourd’hui en Chine. Nanterre: Société d’Ethnologie. (English translation: A World of Their Own: Daoist Monks and Their Community in Contemporary China, translated by L. Kohn Dunedin. St. Petersburg, FL: Three Pines Press, 2013.)
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Ji Zhe. 2004. “Buddhism and the State: The New Relationship.” China Perspectives, no. 55: 2–12; Perspectives chinoises, no. 84: 2–10.
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——. 2005. “Confucius, les libéraux et le Parti. Le renouveau du confucianisme politique.” La vie des idées, May 2005: 9–20.
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——. 2007. “Mémoire reconstituée: les stratégies mnémoniques dans la reconstruction d’un monastère bouddhique.” Cahiers internationaux de sociologie 122: 145–164.
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——. 2008a. “Expectation, Affection and Responsibility: The Charismatic Journey of a New Buddhist Group in Taiwan.” In Goossaert and Ownby 2008, pp. 48–68.
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——. 2008b. “Secularization as Religious Restructuring: Statist Institutionalization of Chinese Buddhism and Its Paradoxes.” In Chinese Religiosities: Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation, edited by Yang M. M., pp. 233–260. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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——. 2008c. “Tianxia, retour en force d’un concept oublié. Portrait des nouveaux penseurs confucianistes.” La vie des idées 2008. http://laviedesidees.fr/Tianxia-retour-en-force-d-un.html (accessed 31 January 2014).
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——. 2011a. “Buddhism in the Reform-Era China: A Secularised Revival?” In Religion in Contemporary China: Revitalization and Innovation, edited by Chau A. Y., pp. 32–52. London: Routledge.
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——. 2011b. “Le jiao recomposé. L’éducation entre religion et politique dans la modernité chinoise.” In “Religion, éducation et politique en Chine moderne,” edited by Zhe Ji. Special issue. Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident 33: 5–34.
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——. 2011c. “Lun gongmin zongjiao” 論剬民宗教. Shehuixue yanjiu 社會學研究, no. 2011/1: 118–132.
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——. 2011d. “Religion, éducation et politique en Chine moderne,” edited by Zhe Ji. Special issue. Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident 33.
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——. 2011e. “Religion, jeunesse et modernité: Le camp d’été, nouvelle pratique rituelle du bouddhisme chinois.” Social Compass 58 (4): 525–539.
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——. 2012. Review of Vincent Goossaert and David A. Palmer, The Religious Question in Modern China. In Renwen zongjiao yanjiu 人文宗教研究, edited by Silong Li, vol. 2, pp. 323–332. Beijing: Zongjiao wenhua chubanshe.
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——. 2013a. “Chinese Buddhism as a Social Force: Reality and Potential of Thirty Years of Revival.” Chinese Sociological Review 45 (2): 8–26.
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——. 2013b. “Return to Durkheim: Civil Religion and the Moral Reconstruction of China.” In Durkheim in Disciplinary Dialogue: A Centenary Celebration of “The Elementary Forms of Religious Life,” edited by Hausner S. L., pp. 47–66. Oxford: Berghahn Books.
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Lagerwey John. 1987. Taoist Ritual in Chinese Society and History. New York: Macmillan.
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——. 1994. “Notes on the Symbolic Life of a Hakka Village.” In Proceedings of International Conference on Popular Beliefs and Chinese Culture, pp. 733–762. Taibei: Center for Chinese Studies.
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——. 1995a. “Taoist Ritual Space and Dynastic Legitimacy.” Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie 8: 87–94.
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——. 1995b. Review of Taoist Ritual and Popular Cults of Southeast China, by Kenneth Dean. Bulletin de l’École française d’Extrême-Orient 82: 446–447.
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——. 2002. “Of Gods and Ancestors: The Ten-village Rotation of Pingyuan shan.” Minsu quyi (Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore), no. 137: 61–139.
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——. 2006. “Droit divin et crise dynastique en Chine: Les fondements religieux de la légitimité politique.” In Religion et politique en Asie: Histoire et actualité, edited by Lagerwey John, pp. 49–56. Paris: Les Indes savantes.
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——. 2010. China: A Religious State. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
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——. 2010. “Le projet des Trois Gorges: Faire parler les héros et les dieux.” Études chinoises, no. 29: 259–270.
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——. 2009. “China’s Religious Danwei: Institutionalising Religion in the People’s Republic.” China Perspectives, no. 2009/4: 17–30; Perspectives chinoises, no. 2009/4: 19–33.
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A Summary of French Studies on Chinese Religion
Religion and Society
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As is well known, France has always been the center of European sinology. The study of Chinese religion has always been an important part of French sinology. Scholars outside of sinology are beginning to study Chinese religion, from various disciplinary perspectives. The importance of religion for Chinese society has also been recognized in recent years. In this context, focusing on the relations between religion and society, this article attempts to offer a brief summary of French studies on Chinese religion.