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“Religious Ecology” as a New Model for the Study of Religious Diversity in China

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Religious Diversity in Chinese Thought

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  1. Raised most trenchantly by Richard Madsen, Democracy’s Dharma: Religious Renaissance and Political Development in Taiwan (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007).

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  2. Mou Zhongjian, Tansuo zongjiao 探索宗教 (Beijing: Zongjiao wenhua chubanshe, 2008), 94–100. My citations are drawn from the online version.

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  4. David Aikman, Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2003), cover blurb.

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Clart, P. (2013). “Religious Ecology” as a New Model for the Study of Religious Diversity in China. In: Schmidt-Leukel, P., Gentz, J. (eds) Religious Diversity in Chinese Thought. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137318503_14

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