Hardcover, 509 pages, Oxford 2017, new
Making Saints in Modern China
Innovative within the growing subfield of Chinese religious history for its focus on religious leadership and religious biography
Each chapter incorporates both narrative (the life of the saint under discussion) and comparative analysis of the saint-making process
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