Religion in Chinese Societies

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Since the end of the late twentieth century, religion in all its varied forms has come to play an increasingly visible and dynamic role in the transformation of Chinese societies. This vitality of religious practice challenges the secularization theories that are at the heart of modern social science and it directs renewed attention to the role of religion throughout Chinese history.

This series features monographs and edited volumes investigating the full range of religious practices in all Chinese societies, including Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau, Taiwan, as well as overseas Chinese communities throughout Southeast Asia and elsewhere. It includes research from all disciplines in the social sciences and humanities that describes, documents, and interprets religious practices, beliefs, and the many forms of religious community in Chinese societies.

Authors are cordially invited to submit proposals and/or full manuscripts to the publisher at Brill, Iulia Ivana.

Please see our Guidelines for a Book Proposal. All submissions are subject to a double-anonymous peer review process prior to publication.
From Trustworthiness to Secular Beliefs
Changing Concepts of xin 信 from Traditional to Modern Chinese
Volume 19
978-90-04-53300-4
Text and Context in the Modern History of Chinese Religions
Redemptive Societies and Their Sacred Texts
Volume 16
978-90-04-42416-6
Masters of Psalmody (bimo)
Scriptural Shamanism in Southwestern China
Volume 15
978-90-04-41484-6
The Varieties of Confucian Experience
Documenting a Grassroots Revival of Tradition
Volume 14
Editor(s): Sébastien Billioud
978-90-04-37496-6
Sacred Webs
The Social Lives and Networks of Minnan Protestants, 1840s-1920s
Volume 13
978-90-04-33917-0
Patriotic Cooperation
The Border Services of the Church of Christ in China and Chinese Church-State Relations, 1920s to 1950s
Volume 12
978-90-04-34176-0
Mandarins and Heretics
The Construction of “Heresy” in Chinese State Discourse
Volume 11
978-90-04-33140-2
Contesting the Yellow Dragon
Ethnicity, Religion, and the State in the Sino-Tibetan Borderland, 1379-2009
Volume 10
978-90-04-31923-3
Borrowed Place
Mission Stations and Local Adaption in Early Twentieth-Century Hunan
Volume 9
978-90-04-30294-5
Lightning from the East
Heterodoxy and Christianity in Contemporary China
Volume 8
978-90-04-29725-8
Globalization and the Making of Religious Modernity in China
Transnational Religions, Local Agents, and the Study of Religion, 1800-Present
Volume 7
978-90-04-27151-7
Confucian Rituals and Chinese Villagers
Ritual Change and Social Transformation in a Southeastern Chinese Community, 1368-1949
Volume 6
978-90-04-25725-2
Confucianism as Religion
Controversies and Consequences
Volume 5
By: Yong Chen
978-90-04-24378-1
Chinese Christianity
An Interplay between Global and Local Perspectives
Volume 4
978-90-04-22575-6
China’s Creation and Origin Myths
Cross-cultural Explorations in Oral and Written Traditions
Volume 2
978-90-04-21480-4
Social Scientific Studies of Religion in China
Methodology, Theories, and Findings
Volume 1
Editor(s): Fenggang Yang and Graeme Lang
978-90-04-21479-8
Kenneth Dean, Head, Professor, Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore. His latest book is Ritual Alliances of the Putian Plains, 2 vols. (Leiden, Brill, 2010). He recently directed the documentary Bored in Heaven (2010).

Richard Madsen (Ph.D. Harvard 1977) is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. He has written 12 books on various aspects of religion and morality in both America and China. His most recent book is Democracy’s Dharma: Religious Renaissance and Political Development in Taiwan (University of California Press, 2007).

David A. Palmer is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and fellow of the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at Hong Kong University. He is the author of Qigong Fever: Body, Science and Utopia in China (Columbia University Press, 2007) and co-author of The Religious Question in Modern China (University of Chicago Press, 2010).
Series Editors
Kenneth Dean, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Richard Madsen, University of California, San Diego, USA
David Palmer, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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