Chicago. The University of Chicago Press, 2002. Maps, plans, black and white photographic illustrations, xxv + 373pp, index, bibliography, notes, little extremities wear to dustjacket, a very good hardback copy, square quarto. This text explores the large body of sculpture, paintings and other religious imagery produced for China's common classes..... More
Oxford. Oxford University Press, 2012. xv + 245pp, index, bibliography, notes, very good paperback copy. "Religion in China survived the most radical suppression in human history - a total ban of any religion during and after the Cultural Revolution. All churches, temples, and mosques were closed down, converted for secular..... More
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press. 1998. Maps, black and white photographic plates, xviii + 332pp, index, works cited, notes, glossary, abbreviations, very good paperback copy. "Crazy Ji: Chinese Religion and Popular Literature is the first study in any language of one of the most colourful deities in the pantheon of..... More
London. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. (c. 1968). Black and white plates, xiii + 221pp, notes, biblio, glossary of Chinese terms, list of quotations, index, endpapers and edges foxed, boards and spine trifle discoloured.. History of Religion series. Provides a general introduction to the development of religious ideas in China from 1000..... More
Singapore. ISEAS. 1985. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xi + 87pp, appendices, paperback with some sunning on covers and spine, still a good copy. ISEAS Occasional Paper No. 79. The Dejiao syncretic sect is a recent phenomenon which emerged in the 1930s. After World War II it spread to..... More
Honolulu. University of Hawai'i Press. 1999. Maps, tables, appendices, bibliography, index, ix + 343pp, a very good paperback copy. "A thought-provoking and revisionist study of the "White Lotus" tradition/movements in Chinese popular religious history." China Review International. When referring to this item please quote stockid 168293. More
Prospect Heights. Wayland. 1961. vi + 473pp, notes, bibliography, appendices, index, paperback, 23 x 15.2cm, a very good copy. Describes the religious behaviour of all classes in China and relates the religious element in Chinese life to other aspects of society and changes in society. When referring to this item..... More