Journal of Chinese Religions 49, no. 1 (May 2021) now online

Philip Clart Discussion

I am happy to announce that the May 2021 issue of the Journal of Chinese Religions is now online at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/44488. See the table of contents below.

Best wishes,

Philip Clart

Editor, Journal of Chinese Religions

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Journal of Chinese Religions 49, no. 1 (May 2021)

 

ARTICLES

 

A Little Bird Told Me: The Magical Birds of the Pure Land

Kendall Marchman

 

Deviant Viewers and Gendered Looks: Erotic Interactions with Images and Visual Culture in Song Popular Religion

Hsiao-wen Cheng

 

The Precious Scroll of Liu Xiang: Late Ming Roots and Late Qing Proliferation

Katherine Alexander

 

The Confluence of Karma and Hygiene: Vegetarianism with Renewed Meanings for Modern Chinese Buddhism

Lianghao Lu

 

Releasing Life or Releasing Death: The Practice of and Discourse on Buddhist Animal Liberation Rituals in Contemporary Xiamen

Avi Darshani

 

 

REVIEWS

 

Wen-shing Chou, Mount Wutai: Visions of a Sacred Buddhist Mountain (Natalie Köhle)

 

Philip Clart, David Ownby & Wang Chien-chuan, eds., Text and Context in the Modern History of Chinese Religions: Redemptive Societies and Their Sacred Texts (Vincent Goossaert)

 

Erik J. Hammerstrom, The Huayan University Network: The Teaching and Practice of Avataṃsaka Buddhism in Twentieth-Century China (Nicholaos Jones)

 

Yuhang Li, Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China (Dorothy C. Wong)

 

Gregory Adam Scott, Building the Buddhist Revival: Reconstructing Monasteries in Modern China (Michael J. Walsh)

 

Dominic Steavu, The Writ of the Three Sovereigns: From Local Lore to Institutional Daoism (Anna-Alexandra Fodde-Reguer)

 

Chün-fang Yü, Chinese Buddhism: A Thematic History (Stuart H. Young)