"Most of the essays in this collection were first presented at the International Conference on Religion and Locality in the Chinese World held at the Australian Centre on China in the World, The Australian National University, in August 2013."--Page i.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- In search of original scriptures : the formation of modern Buddhist studies and Sino-Japanese exchange / Chen Jidong -- Locality and temple fundraising in Northern Qing China / Luo Weiwei -- Yu Yue (1821-1906) explores the other world : religious culture of the Chinese elites on the eve of the revolutions / Vincent Goossaert -- Inside and outside the British settlement at Shanghai / Benjamin Penny -- The construction of fundamentalism in I-Kuan Tao / Ting Jen-chieh -- The problem of locality and the Three-Self patriotic movement : the little flock in Fuzhou City / Kao Chen-yang -- Singing your own song? : Terry Hu and the influence of campus folk music cafes on Taiwan's new age religion / Paul J. Farrelly -- Rituals as local knowledge : millet and the symbolic subsistence of Taiwan's aboriginal populations / Benoît Vermander -- A resurgent temple and community development : roles of the temple manager, local elite and entrepreneurs / Chang Hsun -- The decline and revitalisation of shamanic traditions in a Paiwan village in Taiwan / Hu Tai-li -- City of saints : Linxia as the centre of Qadiriyya sufism in northwest China / Tiffany Cone -- Rivers and lakes : life stories of diviners in a northern Chinese city / Li Geng -- Contributors -- Index.

English text with some chapters translated from the Chinese.