Contents

pp v-vi

List of Diagrams

pp vii-vii

Note on Romanisation

pp viii-viii

Preface to the Second Edition

pp ix-xii

Acknowledgements to the Second Edition

pp xiii-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-18

PART 1 - INVENTING A RELIGIOUS TRADITION

pp 19-20

1 - Reinventing Chinese Syncretic Religion: Shenism

pp 21-55

2 - Communicating with Gods, Deities and Spirits

pp 56-88

PART 2 - STATE, SOCIETY AND RELIGIOUS ENGINEERING

pp 89-90

3 - Bureaucratising the Temple and the Sangha

pp 91-131

4 - Establishing an Ethno-Religious Framework and the Religious Law

pp 132-166

5 - Buddhist Welfare and Charity

pp 167-194

6 - Experimenting with Religious Values as Asian Values

pp 195-220

PART 3 - TOWARDS A REFORMIST BUDDHISM

pp 221-222

7 - Towards a Reformist Buddhism

pp 223-250

8 - Members and Their Religiosity

pp 251-270

9 - Competing Claims of Modernity and Class Identity: Christianity versus Reformist Buddhism

pp 271-290

Conclusion

pp 291-298

Postscript to the Second Edition: Towards a Humanist and Socially-engaged Buddhism

pp 299-302

Glossary

pp 303-308

Bibliography

pp 309-328

Index

pp 329-337