Concepts and Methods for the Study of Chinese Religions III: Key Concepts in Practice

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In recent years, the study of modern Chinese religions has developed into a highly innovative yet challenging field. One of the main reasons for this involves an ongoing (and largely unresolved) debate regarding what methods and theories are appropriate for analyzing the wide range of beliefs and practices we encounter. This series of three volumes is based on the conviction that, in this critical period of research on modern Chinese religions, it is time for scholars to review the development of our field, reconsider its present state of theories and analytical models, and open a new chapter in the understanding of methodologies we employ. Our research is grounded on the need to re-evaluate concepts and practices that inform both the religious sphere and contemporary scholarship, including endogenous Chinese concepts and exogenous ideas from the West and Japan that have been foundational in shaping our knowledge of the Chinese religious landscape. In this third volume of our series, we examine a variety of key concepts through their praxis in modern Chinese lived religions. Preface Acknowledgments Contents List of Figures and Tables List of Contributors Note on Chinese Names, Terms and Transliteration Introduction On the Judicial Continuum and the Study of Chinese Legal Culture Moral Integration or Social Segregation? Vegetarianism and Vegetarian Religious Communities in Chinese Religious Life Food Fellowship and the Making of a Chinese Church: Cases from Contemporary China and Taiwan Buddhist Activism and Animal Protection in Republican China Charismatic Communications: The Intimate Publics of Chinese Buddhism Gender as a Useful Category of Analysis in Chinese Religions – With Two Case Studies from the Republican Period Ritual Practices and Networks of Zhuang Shamans Actors, Spaces, and Norms in Chinese Transnational Religious Networks: A Case Study of Wenzhou Migrants in France Globalization as a Tactic – Legal Campaigns of the Falun Gong Diaspora Index