Journal of Chinese Religions, Volume 45, Issue 2 (2017)

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Bodhidharma Outside Chan Literature: Immortal, Inner Alchemist, and Emissary from the Eternal Realm
Stephen Eskildsen
Pages: 119-150
Published online: 02 Oct 2017
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Ancestral Force in Iconic Imagery: Death and Continuance in a South China Village
Göran Aijmer
Pages: 151-171
Published online: 02 Oct 2017
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Making “Science” from “Superstition”: Conceptions of Knowledge Legitimacy among Contemporary Yijing Diviners
William Matthews
Pages: 173-196
Published online: 02 Oct 2017
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Reviews

Book Review
The Sage and the People: The Confucian Revival in China
Anna Sun
Pages: 197-199
Published online: 02 Oct 2017
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Thomé H. Fang, Tang Junyi and Huayan Thought: A Confucian Appropriation of Buddhist Ideas in Response to Scientism in the Twentieth Century
Erik Hammerstrom
Pages: 199-201
Published online: 02 Oct 2017
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A Late Sixteenth-Century Chinese Buddhist Fellowship: Spiritual Ambitions, Intellectual Debates, and Epistolary Connections
Yiqun Zhou
Pages: 202-204
Published online: 02 Oct 2017
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The Shenzi Fragments: A Philosophical Analysis and Translation
Yuri Pines
Pages: 204-206
Published online: 02 Oct 2017
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Chan Rhetoric of Uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record: Sharpening a Sword at the Dragon Gate
Desheng Zong
Pages: 207-210
Published online: 02 Oct 2017
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Theater of the Dead: A Social Turn in Chinese Funerary Art, 1000–1400
Aurelia Campbell
Pages: 210-212
Published online: 02 Oct 2017
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The Immortal Maiden Equal to Heaven and Other Precious Scrolls from Western Gansu
Katherine Alexander
Pages: 212-214
Published online: 02 Oct 2017
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Recovering Buddhism in Modern China
Hung-Yok Ip
Pages: 215-217
Published online: 02 Oct 2017
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Emperor Wu Zhao and Her Pantheon of Devis, Divinities, and Dynastic Mothers
Huaiyu Chen
Pages: 218-220
Published online: 02 Oct 2017
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On Cold Mountain: A Buddhist Reading of the Hanshan Poems
Christopher Byrne
Pages: 220-222
Published online: 02 Oct 2017
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Practicing Scripture: A Lay Buddhist Movement in Late Imperial China
Thomas Jansen
Pages: 222-224
Published online: 02 Oct 2017
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Editorial Board

Editorial Board
Page: ebi
Published online: 02 Oct 2017
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Emptiness and Omnipresence: An Essential Introduction to Tiantai Buddhism
Wing-Cheuk Chan
Pages: 225-227
Published online: 02 Oct 2017
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