This book explores the interaction between religion and nationalism in the Chinese societies of mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Cheng-tian Kuo analyses the dominant religions, including Chinese Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity, Islam, and folk religions, but he also goes beyond that, showing how in recent decades the Chinese state has tightened its control over religion to an unprecedented degree. Indeed, it could almost be said to have constructed a wholly new religion, Chinese Patriotism. The same period, however, has seen the growth of democratic civil religions, which could challenge the state.

Cheng-tian Kuo is Distinguished Professor of Political Science Department and Graduate Institute of Religious Studies at the National Chengchi University in Taiwan. He is the author of Religion and Democracy in Taiwan (State University of New York Press, 2008).

About the Editor and ContributorsNotes on Chinese Names, Terms, and TransliterationPrefaceChapter 1 Introduction: Religion, State, and Religious Nationalism in Chinese SocietiesCheng-tian KuoPart I Chinese Religion and Nationalism before 1949Chapter 2 Idea of Chineseness and Ethnic Thought of Wang Fuzhi Chi-shen ChangChapter 3 Missionizing, Civilizing, and Nationizing: Linked Concepts of Compelled ChangeJulia SchneiderChapter 4 The Nation in Religion and Religion in the NationAdam Yuet ChauChapter 5 History and Legitimacy in Contemporary China: Towards Competing NationalismsRobert D. Weatherley and Qiang ZhangChapter 6 Pilgrimage and Hui Muslim Identity in the Republican EraYuan-lin Tsai Part II Religion and Nationalism in Contemporary ChinaChapter 7 Religion and the Nation: Confucian and New Confucian Religious NationalismBart DesseinChapter 8 Yiguandao under the Shadow of Nationalism: Traitor, Conspirator, Traditionalist, or Loyalist? Ching-chih LinChapter 9 Daoism and Nationalism in Recent and Contemporary ChinaShu-wei HsiehChapter 10 Nationalism Matters: Among Mystics and Martyrs of TibetAntonio TerroneChapter 11 ŸWe Are Good CitizensŒ: Tension between Protestants and the State in Contemporary ChinaYen-zen Tsai Part III Religion and Nationalism in Taiwan and Hong KongChapter 12 Religion and National Identity in Taiwan: State Formation and Moral SensibilitiesEdmund Frettingham and Yih-jye HwangChapter 13 Multiple Religious and National Identities: Mazu Pilgrimages across the Taiwan Strait after 1987Hsun Chang Chapter 14 Salvation and Rights in Hong KongMariske Westendorp EndnotesBibliographyIndex