Includes index.

Making religion, making the state in modern China : an introductory essay / Yoshiko Ashiwa and David L. Wank -- The politics of religion : late-imperial origins of the regulatory state / Timothy Brook -- Positioning religion in modernity : state and Buddhism in China / Yoshiko Ashiwa -- The Catholic pilgrimage to Sheshan / Richard Madsen and Lizhu Fan -- Pathways to the pulpit : leadership training in "patriotic" and unregistered Chinese Protestant churches / Carsten T. Vala -- Institutionalizing modern "religion" in Buddhism : political phases of a reviving field in a Chinese city / David L. Wank -- Islam in China : state policing and identity politics / Dru C. Gladney -- Further partings of the way : the Chinese state and Daoist ritual traditions in contemporary China / Kenneth Dean -- Expanding the space of popular religion : local temple activism and the politics of legitimation in contemporary rural China / Adam Yuet Chau -- The creation and reemergence of Qigong in China / Utiraruto Otehode.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.