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Popular religious movements and heterodox sects in Chinese history
BRILL 2003; US$ 182.00This work surveys the history of popular religious sects in Chinese history. It covers the formation of the notions of orthodoxy and heterodoxy in the contexts of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism. It also deals with each new religious movements, its teachings, scriptures, and social organization. more...
Chinese Religions in Contemporary Societies
ABC-CLIO 2006; US$ 85.00A comprehensive introduction to the resurgence of religion in China and Taiwan since the end of the Cultural Revolution and a wide-ranging examination of the impact of religious traditions on Euro-Americans and Chinese immigrants in present-day North America. more...
Confucian Ethics
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 30.00The Chinese ethical tradition has often been thought to oppose Western views of the self as autonomous and possessed of individual rights with views that emphasize the centrality of relationship and community to the self. The essays in this collection discuss the validity of that contrast as it concerns Confucianism. more...
State, Market, and Religions in Chinese Societies
BRILL 2005; US$ 69.00This is a collection of original, new studies about religious changes in Chinese societies, focusing on the role of the state and market in affecting religious developments. It will interest people who want to understand China and/or religious change in modernizing societies more...
The Daoist Monastic Manual
Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 98.99This title offers a complete annotated translation of the 'Fengdao Keije', accompanied by three introductory chapters that outline the development of Daoist organisations, discuss the date and compilation of the work, and introduce key issues of terminology and world view. more...
Ancestors and Anxiety
University of California Press 2007; US$ 49.95This innovative work on Chinese concepts of the afterlife is the result of Stephen Bokenkamp's groundbreaking study of Chinese scripture and the incorporation of Indic concepts into the Chinese worldview. Here, he explores how Chinese authors, including Daoists and non-Buddhists, received and deployed ideas about rebirth from the third to the sixth... more...
Pierre Gassendi and the Birth of Early Modern Philosophy
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 37.00The first comprehensive treatment in English of the seventeenth century philosopher Pierre Gassendi. more...
An Introduction to Daoist Thought
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95This is the first work available in English which addresses Zhuangzi?s thought as a whole. It presents an interpretation of the Zhuangzi, a book in thirty-three chapters that is the most important collection of Daoist texts in early China. The author introduces a complex reading that shows the unity of Zhuangzi?s thought, in particular in his views... more...
Explorations in Daoism
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95The Daoist canon is the definitive fifteenth century compilation of texts concerning ritual, alchemical and meditation practices within Daoist religion. Many of these texts are undated and anonymous, so dating them is essential for a clear understanding of the development of Chinese alchemy, and the place of these texts in history. Ho Peng Yoke's... more...









