Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Globalization and the Religious Field in China, 1800-present -- Part One Transformation of the Religious Field in China: The Changing Role of the State -- Chapter 1 Managing Chinese Religious Pluralism in Nineteenth-Century City God Temples -- Chapter 2 Political Religion in Twentieth-Century China and Its Global Dimension -- Part Two Global Currents and Their Local Refractions -- Chapter 3 The Christian Century of South China: Church, State, and Community in Chaozhou (1860-1990) -- Chapter 4 Sectarian Religions and Globalization in Nineteenth-Century China: The Wanbao baojuan 寳寶卷 (1858) and Other Examples -- Chapter 5 Beyond Globalization and Secularization: Changing Religion and Philanthropy in Lukang, Taiwan -- Chapter 6 'Mrs. Ma' and 'Ms. Xu': On the Attractiveness of Denoting Oneself a 'Buddhist' in the Increasingly Transnational Milieu of Urban Taiwan -- Chapter 7 Globalization vs. Localization: Remaking the Cult of Confucius in Contemporary Quzhou -- Chapter 8 Tibetan Buddhist Books in a Digital Age -- Part Three Chinese-Western Encounters: Global Visions and Cultural Flows -- Chapter 9 A Modern Ruist Religious Vision of a Global Unity: Kang Youwei's Utopian Vision and Its Humanistic Religious Refraction in European Sinology -- Chapter 10 The Buddhist-Christian Encounter in Modern China and the Globalization of Culture -- Part Four Knowledge Transfer, Academic Networks, Identity, and the Study of Religions -- Chapter 11 How the 'Science of Religion' (zongjiaoxue) as a Discipline Globalized 'Religion' in Late Qing and Republican China, 1890-1949-Global Concepts, Knowledge Transfer, and Local Discourses.

Chapter 12 Negotiating Cultural and Religious Identities in the Encounter with the 'Other': Global and Local Perspectives in the Historiography of Late Qing/Early Republican Christian Missions -- Chapter 13 Sino-Christian Theology: Treading a Fine Line between Self-Determination and Globalization -- Index.