Richard Madsen

Biographic Data

ID110025
NAMERichard Madsen
GIVEN NAMESRichard
FAMILY NAMEMadsen
SIGNATUREMADSEN R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California San Diego
ORCID0000-0002-7025-4642
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS95
TOTAL CITATIONS287
AUTHOR COUNT89
EDITOR COUNT6
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX7

  • Challenging Modernity

    Robert N Bellah, Robert Ν Bellah et al.BOOKChallenging Modernity2024

    "For the sociologist Robert Bellah, questions about the meaning and responsibility of human beings in the present emerge out of our self-awareness of our responsibilities to one another and the planet. He places religion as the central social institution through which this is understood. At the time of his passing in 2013, Bellah had begun formulating what would have been his next book, a narrative that demonstrated how the axial age (500 - 300 B…

  • Challenging Modernity

    Ann Swidler, Richard Madsen et al.BOOKChallenging Modernity2024

  • Challenging Modernity

    Ann Swidler, Richard Madsen et al.BOOKChallenging Modernity2024

  • Religion and Inequality

    Richard Madsen, William M SullivanCHAPTERThe Oxford Handbook of Religion…2024

    The growth of economic inequality poses severe challenges, not only to the stability of global economic and political systems, but also to the health and viability of the social fabric of contemporary societies. Inequality is therefore a moral and spiritual as well as a technical economic problem. This chapter asks what resources the great world religions—Islam, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Confucianism—can bring to the crises occasioned …

  • Christianity and Social Engagement in China

    Richard MadsenARTICLEThe China Journal2024

  • China's Catholics: Tragedy and Hope in an Emerging Civil Society

    Richard MadsenBOOKChina's Catholics2023

  • Testing a Prostate Cancer Educational Intervention in High-Burden Neighborhoods

    Open AccessC Zeigler-Johnson, Richard Madsen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Racial and Ethnic…2022

  • The Sinicization of Chinese Religions: From Above and Below

    Richard MadsenBOOKThe Sinicization of Chinese…2021

    Since its announcement by Xi Jinping in 2015, “Sinicization” has become the slogan that guides Chinese official policy towards religion. What does it mean? What effects is it having on Chinese religions? Where will it lead? This book, with contributions from experts in the major religious traditions in China, is one of the first in English that answers these questions. From the top down, Sinicization is a project to control all forms of religion …

  • Controversies about Religious Organisations within an Evolving Taiwan Civil Society

    Richard MadsenARTICLEInternational Journal of Taiwan…2021References: 2

    A staple of political theory is that democracy depends on a vibrant civil society. What are the indicators of such a society? Is it the number of voluntary associations, their relative independence from government, the content of their activities, their systemic relationships with one another—and/or the way the relationships among these variables are evolving over time? In this paper, I place special emphasis on the systemic relationships among c…

  • Voices from the Underworld: Chinese Hell deity worship in contemporary Singapore and Malaysia

    Fabian Graham, Richard Madsen et al.BOOKVoices from the Underworld2020

    This study investigates contemporary Chinese Underworld traditions in Singapore and Malaysia, where the veneration of Hell deities is particularly popular. Highlighting the Taoist and Buddhist cosmologies on which present-day beliefs and practices are based, the book provides unique insights into the lived tradition, taking alterity seriously and interpreting practitioners’ beliefs without bias. First-person dialogues between the author and chann…

  • The Catholic Pilgrimage to Sheshan

    Richard Madsen, Lizhu FanCHAPTERMaking Religion, Making the State2020

  • Communists constructing capitalism: State, market, and the Party in China's financial reform

    Julian Gruin, Richard Madsen et al.BOOKCommunists Constructing Capitalism2020

    Over more than thirty years of reform and opening, the Chinese Communist Party has pursued the gradual marketization of China's economy alongside the preservation of a resiliently authoritarian political system, defying long-standing predictions that 'transition' to a market economy would catalyse deeper political transformation. In an era of deepening synergy between authoritarian politics and finance capitalism, Communists constructing capitali…

  • Unofficial China: Popular Culture and Thought in the People’s Republic

    Perry Link, Richard Madsen et al.BOOKUnofficial China2019

  • The Chinese Catholic Church: Between Rome and Beijing and Sinicization from Above and Below

    Richard MadsenARTICLEReview of Religion and Chinese…2019

    Both the Chinese state and the Vatican have an interest in maintaining more regular control over local Catholic community life. Their interests partially converge in seeking a regularized process for selecting Catholic bishops in the officially recognized part of the Chinese Church. This overlapping of interests is the basis for the “provisional agreement” between the Vatican and China on the selection of bishops signed on September 22, 2018. The…

  • Unofficial China: Popular Culture and Thought in the People's Republic

    E Perry Link, Richard Madsen et al.BOOKUnofficial China2019

  • Religious Renaissance and Taiwan’s Modern Middle Classes

    Richard MadsenCHAPTERChinese Religiosities2019

  • East Asian Buddhist Ethics

    Richard Madsen, Daniel Cozort et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Buddhist Ethics2018

    Buddhism was transmitted to China around the beginning of the Common Era and from there spread to the other societies in East Asia. The Mahāyāna tradition eventually became embedded in the ordinary life of those societies, closely intertwined with Confucian and Daoist ethics. Popular Buddhist ethics were basically utilitarian, a means to produce desirable consequences. In the twentieth century, reformers like Taixu (1890–1947) tried to purify thi…

  • The State of Nursing Home Information Technology Sophistication in Rural and Nonrural US Markets

    Open AccessGregory L Alexander, Richard Madsen et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Rural Health2017

    OBJECTIVE: To test for significant differences in information technology sophistication (ITS) in US nursing homes (NH) based on location. METHODS: We administered a primary survey January 2014 to July 2015 to NH in each US state. The survey was cross-sectional and examined 3 dimensions (IT capabilities, extent of IT use, degree of IT integration) among 3 domains (resident care, clinical support, administrative activities) of ITS. ITS was broken d…

  • Inventing American Religion: Polls, Surveys, and the Tenuous Quest for a Nation's Faith

    Open AccessRichard MadsenARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2017

  • Popular Belief in Contemporary China: A Discourse Analysis

    Richard MadsenARTICLEJournal of Chinese Religions2016

    By all accounts there has been an impressive resurgence of popular religion in contemporary China, although statistics of this are in dispute. Reflecting official ideology, most Chinese identify th

  • Paul R. Katz. Religion in China and its Modern Fate

    Richard MadsenARTICLEThe American Historical Review2015

    Journal Article Paul R. Katz. Religion in China and its Modern Fate. Get access Paul R. Katz. Religion in China and Its Modern Fate. (The Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures.) Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University Press, 2014. Pp. xvii, 241. Cloth $85.00, paper $40.00, e-book $39.99. Richard Madsen Richard Madsen University of California, San Diego [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American H…

  • Anthropology and Moral Philosophy: A Symposium on Michael Banner's The Ethics of Everyday Life

    Open AccessMichael Banner, L A Sharp et al.ARTICLEThe Cambridge Journal of…2015Cited by: 1

    What Moral Theology (and Moral Philosophy) Needs from Social Anthropology Michael Banner The Ethics of Suffering in Everyday Life Lesley A. Sharp Ethical Narrative and Moral Theory Richard Madsen Specifying the Relationship between Social Anthropology and Moral Theology John H. Evans The Ethics of Everyday Life: The Next Word J. Derrick Lemons Reading Michael Banner on Moral Theology and Social Anthropology Thomas J. Csordas Descriptions, Norms, …

  • Secular Belief, Religious Belonging in China

    Richard MadsenARTICLEReview of Religion and Chinese…2014

    A recent Gallup poll found that almost half of China’s people are atheists. However, surveys conducted by Fenggang Yang and others show that as much as 85 percent of the population periodically engages in religious practices. How can we reconcile reports of widespread atheism with those of widespread religious practice?An answer is to be found in the social nature of Chinese religion—it is more about belonging than belief. Rituals and sacred myth…

  • From socialist ideology to cultural heritage: The changing basis oflegitimacy in the People's Republic of China

    Richard MadsenARTICLEAnthropology and Medicine2014Cited by: 7References: 2

    There has been a shift over the past generation in the moral basis for legitimacy of the Chinese state. The socialist state was legitimated by a sinified version of Marxism-Leninism, watered with the blood of revolutionary martyrs who fought on behalf of the Communist Party to defend the nation from external aggressors. However, at many levels of society, the Marxist legitimation is dead. Instead of claiming to represent the values of Communist r…

  • Religion under Communism

    Richard Madsen, Stephen A SmithBOOKOxford Handbook of the History of…2013

    Lenin began and Stalin completed the organizational structures and the repertoire of strategies and tactics that would be used as a model by almost all subsequent communist movements for suppressing religion. This model was primarily constructed to overcome the challenges posed to the revolution by a powerful Russian Orthodox Church. As such it did not fit the religious circumstances of other communist countries. It was poorly adapted to the dece…