Making Saints in Modern China
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Innovative within the growing subfield of Chinese religious history for its focus on religious leadership and religious biography
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Each chapter incorporates both narrative (the life of the saint under discussion) and comparative analysis of the saint-making process
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Includes the work of several European and Chinese scholars, some of whose work has been made available in English for the first time in this volume
Table of Contents:
Preface
List of Contributors
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Charismatic Monk and the Chanting Masses: Master Yinguang and his Pure Land Revival Movement (Jan Kiely)
Chapter 2: Zhang Yuanxu: The Making and Unmaking of a Daoist Saint (Vincent Goossaert)
Chapter 3: Chan Master Xuyun: The Embodiment of an Ideal, the Transmission of a Model (Daniela Campo)
Chapter 4: Duan Zhengyuan and the Moral Studies Society: "Religionized Confucianism" during the Republican Period (Fan Chunwu)
Chapter 5: Two Turns in the Life of Master Hongyi,a Buddhist Monk in Twentieth-Century China (Raoul Birnbaum)
Chapter 6: Yiguandao's Patriarch Zhang Tianran (1889 - 1947): Hagiography, Deification and Production of Charisma in a Modern Religious Organization (Sébastien Billioud)
Chapter 7: Sainthood, Science, and Politics: The Life of Li Yujie, Founder of the Tiandijiao (David Ownby)
Chapter 8: Subtle Erudition and Compassionate Devotion: Longlian (1909-2006), "The Most Outstanding Bhiksuni" in Modern China (Ester Bianchi)
Chapter 9: Comrade Zhao Puchu: Bodhisattva under the Red Flag (Ji Zhe)
Chapter 10: The "New Clothes" of Sainthood in China: The Case of Nan Huaijin (1918-2012) (Catherine Despeux)
Chapter 11: Jingkong: From Universal Saint to Sectarian Saint (Yanfei Sun)
Chapter 12: Ren Fajiu : A Living Daoist Immortal in the People's Republic (Adeline Herrou)
Bibliography
Index