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Description: This collaborative effort of nine scholars of Chinese religion, history, and thought addresses the question of how changes in the religions of the Chinese people were implicated in the momentous social and cultural changes during the T'ang (618-807) and Sung (960-1279) dynasties. The work vividly conveys the diversity of the T'ang and Sung religious world. Each author looks for evidence of interconnections: links between social and religious changes, between political or economic developments and religious ideas or practices, between folk religion and institutional religion, between Confucian philosophy and changes in the social and religious landscape, and between the ways in which religious and secular groups were organized.
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