The revival of religious belief and practice in China over the past thirty years, after decades of severe repression, has attracted much attention by scholars.

This book provides a sampling of recent field studies of religions in China, along with theoretical reflections by sociologists, anthropologists and religious s

The speed and the scale with which traditional religions in China have been revived and new spiritual movements have emerged in recent decades make it difficult

This volume combines the perspective of religion as a constructed category of modernity with the analytic focus and empirical grounding of institutional social

How can Daoism, China's indigenous religion, give us the aesthetic, ethical, political, and spiritual tools to address the root causes of our ecological crisis