I. Making meaning: Religiousness and meaning-making – Religion and transcendence – The study of religion in the West – Chinese popular religion. II. Religion and modernity: Secularization and secularity re-examined – Modernity and disenchantment – Religion’s place in a late-modern world – Characteristics of late-modern religiousness. III. Religion, China and the future: China’s religious heritage as moral capital –- Adopting and adapting China’s religious heritage – Civil society, religion and the common good – China and the future of religion.
Includes bibliographical references.

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Keywords: Origin of religion: Comparative religion, cultural anthropology, religious sociology, conjecture of psychoanalysis, philosophy of history, religion and science, theory of contradiction, harmony, separation, conflict, religion and nonrationality, religion and feeling, religion and will, mystical experience, Ultimate Concern, beyond rationality, religion and language, academic background, semantic analysis, functional analysis, Entmythologisierung, theory of symbols, interreligious dialogue, issues of religious truth, religion and culture, primitive culture, modern culture, cultural history, cultural forms, cultural symbols, Religion-Culture outlook.