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| Foreword | ||
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Table of Chinese Religious History | ||
| Time Line of Chinese Religious History | ||
| Introduction | ||
| 1 | The Early Chinese Worldview | 1 |
| 2 | Prescientific Theory and Religious Practice | 14 |
| 3 | The Family: Kindred and Ancestors | 31 |
| 4 | The Community: Gods and Temples | 53 |
| 5 | The State: Emperor and Officials | 67 |
| 6 | Three Ways to Ultimate Transformation: (1) Taoist Tradition | 80 |
| 7 | Three Ways to Ultimate Transformation: (2) Literati Tradition | 95 |
| 8 | Three Ways to Ultimate Transformation: (3) Buddhist Tradition | 101 |
| 9 | Their Separate Ways: Cults and Sects | 115 |
| 10 | The Festival Year | 118 |
| 11 | Traditional Chinese Religion as Means of Coping | 124 |
| 12 | The Disruption of Tradition | 134 |
| Appendix 1 The Canons of the Three Traditions | 144 | |
| Appendix 2 The Mind or Heart Scripture of Perfect Wisdom | 150 | |
| Appendix 3 The Heaven-Honored One of the Primal Beginnings Speaks the Scripture of the Precious Names of the Three Controllers | 152 | |
| Notes | 155 | |
| Glossary | 161 | |
| Selected Readings | 164 | |
| Index | 177 |
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Kenneth Shadford
reviewed Chinese Religion; An Introduction - Laurence G. Thompson on September 22, 2012
Chinese Religion
I think a lot of this went over my head, I'm sad to say. It was very hard to follow with all the German names and it jumped all over the timeline rather than going chronologically. But it was informative.
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