John Lagerwey, China: A Religious State

China: A Religious State is the published version of a series of lectures given by John Lagerwey at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Hong Kong around 2008, offering a comprehensive view of the religious dimensions of Chinese state and society throughout its long history as well as in the deep structures of traditional local communities. The book is immensely rich in its breadth and in the profusion of historical and ethnographic details offered by one of the very few ..