Marxism and Religion.Edited by Lü Daji and Gong Xuezeng

This book is more specific in its coverage than the encompassing title Marxism and Religion might imply to readers of The Journal of Church and State . Nevertheless, it merits widespread attention. It is one of six volumes in Brill’s Religious Studies in Contemporary China Collection, which Brill compiled from a longer Chinese series published in 2007 and 2008. The series makes available in English translation a cross-section of recent thinking on religious questions from the upper echelons of Chinese academics and state administrators of religious affairs. The fourteen chapters in the volume under review here, originally published over the 1990s and 2000s, are selected from two separate volumes in the Chinese series, one on religious studies and the other on Marxist approaches to religion. Taken together, these chapters, along with the introduction by Thomas Dubois and Chi Zhen, open a window into the still vital and influential world of Marxist argumentation and theorization about religion within the People’s Republic of China.

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