Contents:
Part I: The Early Sources:
Early Daoism in Retrospect: Cosmology, Ethnics, and Eschatology by Kwang-Ching Liu and Richard Shek
Ethnics and Polity: The Heterodoxy of Buddhism, Maitreyanism, and the Early White Lotus by Richard Shek
The Origins of Ming Buddhist Schism by Whalen W. Lai
Part II: Aspects of Popular Religion:
Daoism and Orthodoxy: The Loyal and Filial Sect by Richard Shek
Daoism and Local Cults: A Case Study of the Cult of Marshal Wen by Paul R. Katz
Shamanism in the Eyes of Ming and Qing Elites by Donald S. Sutton
Part III: Eternal Mother Religion:
Eternal Mother Religion: Its History and Ethnics by Richard Shek and Tetsuro Noguchi
Religion and Politics in the White Lotus Rebellion of 1796 in Hubei by Kwang-Ching Liu
Part IV: Late Qing Perspectives:
The Triads and Their Ideology Up to the Early Nineteenth Century: A Brief History by Wen-hsiung Hsu
The Heaven and Earth Society in the Nineteenth Century: An Interpretation by David Faure
The Taipings in Chinese Sectarian Perspective by P. Richard Bohr
Popular and Elite Heterodoxy Toward the End of the Qing by Don C. Price
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