Religious Diversity in Chinese Thought

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Religious Diversity: What Is the Issue?....Pages 17-26
Why Chinese Thought on Religious Diversity Is Important....Pages 27-37
China and Religious Diversity....Pages 39-50
Front Matter....Pages 51-51
One Dao—Many Ways....Pages 53-63
Confucian Approaches to Religious Diversity....Pages 65-79
Contextualizing Buddhist Approaches to Religious Diversity....Pages 81-98
Christian Approaches to Religious Diversity in Premodern China....Pages 99-111
Muslim Approaches to Religious Diversity in China....Pages 113-122
Religious Diversity in Three Teachings Discourses....Pages 123-139
A Different Kind of Religious Diversity....Pages 141-154
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
The Transformation of the Concept of Religion in Chinese Modernity....Pages 157-170
Chinese Communist Thought and Practice on Religious Diversity....Pages 171-186
“Religious Ecology” as a New Model for the Study of Religious Diversity in China....Pages 187-199
Does China Need a Pluralist Theory of Religion?....Pages 201-213
Christian Discourses on Religious Diversity in Contemporary China....Pages 215-229
House Churches....Pages 231-241
Thinking through Conceptual Problems on Chinese New Religious Groups....Pages 243-257
Back Matter....Pages 259-262