From the fifth century BC to the present and dealing with Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, and popular religion, this book explores the four periods of paradigm shift in the intertwined histories of Chinese religion, politics, and culture. It serves as the introduction to the eight-volume Early and Modern Chinese Religion.

The Ukrainian Cossacks, often compared in historical literature to the pirates of the Mediterranean and the frontiersmen of the American West, constituted one of the largest Cossack hosts in the European steppe borderland. They became famous as ferocious warriors, their fighting skills developed in their religious wars against the Tartars, Turks, Poles, and Russians. By and lar...(展开全部)

The Ukrainian Cossacks, often compared in historical literature to the pirates of the Mediterranean and the frontiersmen of the American West, constituted one of the largest Cossack hosts in the European steppe borderland. They became famous as ferocious warriors, their fighting skills developed in their religious wars against the Tartars, Turks, Poles, and Russians. By and lar...(展开全部)

罗志田，1952年生，四川大学历史系七七级毕业，新墨西哥大学硕士、普林斯顿大学博士。先后在四川师范大学、四川大学、北京大学历史系任教，现任四川大学杰出教授。新书有《经典淡出之后：20世纪中国史学的转变与延续》（三联书店），另《道出于二：过渡时代的新旧之争》即将出版。

罗志田，1952年生，四川大学历史系七七级毕业，新墨西哥大学硕士、普林斯顿大学博士。先后在四川师范大学、四川大学、北京大学历史系任教，现任四川大学杰出教授。新书有《经典淡出之后：20世纪中国史学的转变与延续》（三联书店），另《道出于二：过渡时代的新旧之争》即将出版。

美国斯坦福大学人类学系、荷兰内梅亨大学教授，被公认为自施坚雅以后海外中国经济社会史研究的中坚学者、著名人类学者。曾获得美国鲁斯基金会资助。

An outstanding compendium of fourteen papers, almost exclusively based on recent anthropological field research in Hong Kong and Taiwan on the diverse Confucian, Buddhist, and Taoist beliefs and practices of the Chinese peasant ... This collection is of great value in explicating the structure of the supernatural world as seen by the Chinese peasant, its similarity to the forma...(展开全部)