PAUL R. KATZ is Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, and Program Director of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange. He is the author of Religion in China and its Modern Fate (Brandeis University Press, 2014) and Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in Western Hunan during the Modern Era: The Dao among the Miao? (Routledge, forthcoming).

VINCENT GOOSSAERT is professor of Daoist history at EPHE, PSL (Paris) and coeditor of T'oung Pao. He is the author of Heavenly Masters: Two Thousand Years of the Daoist State (University of Hawai'i Press, November 2021) and Making Gods Speak: The Ritual Production of Revelation in Chinese Religious History (Harvard University Asia Center, forthcoming).

Contents
Acknowledgements / vii
Introduction / 1
PART 1: COMMUNAL ORGANIZATION
Chapter 1: The Transformation of Temple Cults / 13
Chapter 2: Festivals in Jiangnan during the Late Qing
and Republican Periods / 37
PART 2: RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE
Chapter 3: Stores of Knowledge: New Forms of Proselytizing / 65
Chapter 4: Morality Books in the Modern Age / 83
PART 3: INDIVIDUAL RELIGIOSITY
Chapter 5: Elite Religiosity from Late Imperial
Times to the Republic / 99
Chapter 6: The Religious Life of Wang Yiting / 117
Conclusion / 137
Notes / 147
Bibliography / 199
About the Authors / 243