Taoism and Chinese Religion by Henri Maspero Translated by Frank A. Kierman, Jr. Revised Edition - Quirin Pinyin Updated Editions (QPUE) This book is a translation of Le Taoisme et les Religions Chinoises, which was posthumously published in France in 1971. It is the first English translation of most of the seminal works on Chinese religion of the great sinologist Henri Maspero...(展开全部)

"The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism" (original Free Press edition 1951) is one of a number of works by the German sociologist Max Weber (1864-1920) published in English translation only long after his death, during a post-World-War II boom in Anglo-American interest in his writing. Such interest has recurred at irregular intervals since (one marked by this 1968 pape...(展开全部)

For junior/senior-level courses in Religion and Society in departments of Sociology and Religious Studies. Using an unbiased, balanced approach, the 8th edition of this text puts religion in its social context by discussing the impact of society on religion and helps students understand the role and function of religion in society that occur regardless of anyone's claims about ...(展开全部)

凯斯·E·严德尔(Keith E．Yandell)是美国威斯康星大学的哲学教授，是当今宗教哲学和分析神学领域内的著名学者。严德尔教授的研究范围广泛，除宗教哲学外，他所涉及的领域还包括现代哲学史、形而上学、宗教哲学、伦理学和印度哲学。他最新的研究方向是关于“全善”的神学问题和“自由和预知”的问题，著作主要有《休谟的“不可解释的奥秘”》(1990)、《宗教经验的认识论》(1995)和《宗教哲学》(1999)。

巴瑞特（Timothy Hugh Barrett），1949年生，英格兰吉尔福德人。1971年毕业于剑桥大学，在剑桥期间师从崔瑞德学习中国文化。后到美国跟随温士敦学习中国宗教，1978年以论文《李翱思想中的佛教、道教和儒教》获耶鲁大学博土学位。曾在日本东京做访问学者。1975年至1986年执教于剑桥大学。1986年至今在伦敦大学东方与非洲研究院任职。主要著作有《李翱——释子、道土还是新儒家》、《唐代道教——中国历史上黄金时期的宗教与帝国》、《儒家的智慧》（合着）、《发明印刷术的妇女》、《寒山诗研究》（合着），发表有《与的流传》、《唐代道教教权的出现》、《唐代道教和藏文佛经中提及的景教和摩尼教》等大量关于中国宗教与历史的文章。

Translated by Ephraim Fischoff With a new Foreword by Ann Swidler

For those to whom "Taoism" is the Tao te ching and Chuang-tzu, nothing could seem more foreign to Taoism than bureaucracy. In these two classics, the Way (tao) is everything that bureaucracy is not: it is nonhierarchical, undifferentiated, ineffable, spontaneous. The bureaucratic spirit pertains rather to stuffy Confucians, who foolishly imagine that the way to fulfill human po...(展开全部)