Contents: The religious and historical landscape / Peter N. Gregory and Patricia Buckley Ebrey -- The expansion of the Wen-Ch'ang cult / Terry F. Kleeman -- Gods on walls / Valerie Hansen -- The growth of purgatory / Stephen F. Teiser --Myth, ritual, and monastic practice in Sung Ch'an buddhism / T. Griffith Foulk -- The response of the Sung state to popular funeral practices / Patricia Buckley Ebrey -- Not by the seal of office alone / Judith Magee Boltz -- Channels of connection in Sung religion / Judith A. Berling -- Southern Sung academies as sacred places / Linda Walton.