Recent Issues


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extensive list of articles, going back to 2008, can be found here.


Journal of Chinese Religions 52, no. 2 (Dec. 2024)

ARTICLES

Bodhisattvas' Compassion: The Lion, Hou, and Diting 

Hui-chi Lo

Atheist Religion and Worldly Redemption in China: The 1922 Anti-Christian Movement

Aymeric Xu

Re-Education as Conversion: "Thought Reform" of Buddhists on Mount Jiuhua in the People's Republic of China, 1949–1966

Nan Ouyang

REVIEWS

Benjamin Brose, Embodying Xuanzang: The Postmortem Travels of a Buddhist Pilgrim (Kevin Buckelew)

Jessey J.C. Choo, Inscribing Death: Burials, Representations, and Remembrance in Tang China (Kate Lingley)

Chenyang Li, Reshaping Confucianism: A Progressive Inquiry (Meng Zhang)

Jifeng LiuNegotiating the Christian Past in China: Memory and Missions in Contemporary Xiamen (Ting Guo)

David Mozina, Knotting the Banner: Ritual and Relationship in Daoist Practice (Michael E. Naparstek)


Journal of Chinese Religions 52, no. 1 (June 2024)

ARTICLES

More Than Curing the Sick: A Re-Examination of Medicine Buddha Worship in Medieval China

Dixuan Chen

Master Yin's Mellifluous Chanting: Daoist Scripture Recitation in Tang Dynasty Epigraphy

Tyler Feezell

Daoism and Landscape: Unruly Landmarks, Punitive Rituals, and Ecology

Mark Meulenbeld

Spiritual Poaching or Authentic Dao? A Transnational Yiguandao Community in Los Angeles Enters the Global Daoist Field

Nicholas Broy

REVIEWS

Guangtian Ha, The Sound of Salvation: Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China (Chuen-Fung Wong)

Laura Lettere, Buddhist Translation Practices in Medieval China: The Case of the Buddhacarita (Anna Sokolova)

Brian J. Nichols, Lotus Blossoms and Purple Clouds: Monastic Buddhism in Post-Mao China (Amandine Péronnet)

Pierre-Emmanuel RouxAu tribunal du repentir: La proscription du catholicisme en Chine (1724–1860) (Michel Chambon)

Richard G. Wang, Lineages Embedded in Temple Networks: Daoism and Local Society in Ming China (Jacopo Scarin)


Journal of Chinese Religions 51, no. 2 (Dec. 2023)

ARTICLES

Transcendents in Translation: Buddhist Affordances for Imagining xian 仙 in China

Kevin Buckelew

Always Being with her Practitioners: A Study of the Diversified Devotional Practices of the Cult of Zhunti 準提 in Late Imperial China (1368–1911)

Tianyu Lei

Daoist Yao Aiyun and Modern Education and Other Reforms in Late Qing Nanyang

Xun Liu

Family Ethics in Taixu's Humanistic Buddhism: The Wisdom of No-Self and the Action of the Bodhisattva

Wei Wu



 

Journal of Chinese Religions 51, no. 1 (June 2023)

ARTICLES

Buddhist Monasteries between Charity and Profit: Taking the Issue of Water Supply of Lin'an (Hangzhou) during the Song Dynasty (960–1279) as an Example

Silvia Freiin Ebner Von Eschenbach

Revisiting the Xiaoshi Jingang keyi 銷釋金剛科儀: A Textual and Reception History

Kedao Tong

Creating an Immortal Body in the Void: The Alchemical Way of Wang Dongting 王東亭 (1839–1917)

Ilia Mozias

Vernacular Modernism: Humanistic Buddhism from Below in Bade, Taiwan

Justin R. Ritzinger

REVIEWS

Daniel Gardner, Zhu Xi: Basic Teachings (Joachim Gentz)

Susan Naquin, Gods of Mount Tai: Familiarity and the Material Culture of North China, 1000–2000 (Vincent Goossaert)

Jie Shi, Modeling Peace: Royal Tombs and Political Ideology in Early China (Armin Selbitschka)


Journal of Chinese Religions 50, no. 2 (Nov. 2022)

ARTICLES

Local Matters: A Socioeconomic History of Monastic Reconstruction in Nineteenth-Century China

Gilbert Z. Chen

Reasoning the Sharī'a and Constructing a Proper Muslim Woman: Reflections on the Issue of Chinese Muslim Women's Haircut in Republican China

Gang Li

Nèidān 內丹 Training According to the Qiānfēng 千峰 (Thousand Peaks) Sub-Lineage: Niú Jīnbǎo's 牛金寶 (1915–1988) Methods in Nine Stages

Louis Komjathy

REVIEWS

Fabian Graham, Voices from the Underworld: Chinese Hell Deity Worship in Contemporary Singapore and Malaysia (Vincent Durand Dastès)

Michael Lackner and Zhao Lu, Handbook of Divination and Prognostication in China: Part I: Introduction to the Field (Beverly Foulks McGuire)

Ryan Nichols, The Routledge International Handbook of Morality, Cognition, and Emotion in China (Bongrae Seok)


Journal of Chinese Religions 50, no. 1 (May 2022)

ARTICLES

Towards a Buddhist History of Mount Tai

Claudia Wenzel

Ritual Techniques for Creating a Divine Persona in Later Imperial China: The Case of Daoist Law Enforcer Lord Wang

Vincent Goossaert

Practicing Salvation: Meat-Eating, Martyrdom, and Sacrifice as Religious Ideals in the Zhenkongjiao

Esmond chuah Meng Soh

Zongjiao as a Chinese Conceptual Term for Religion? Genealogical Notes on its Development Since the Late Qing Period

Christian Meyer

REVIEWS

Alain Arrault and Lina Vercery, A History of Cultic Images in China: The Domestic Statuary of Hunan (Simona Lazzerini)

Vincent Goossaert and Xun Liu, Daoism in Modern China: Clerics and Temples in Urban Transformations, 1860–Present, (Jean DeBernardi)

April Hughes, Worldly Saviors and Imperial Authority in Medieval Chinese Buddhism (Yu Xuan Tay)

Megan Bryson, Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in Western Hunan during the Modern Era: The Dao Among the Miao (Paul Katz)