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The Blooming of the Azure Lotus in the South Seas: A Preliminary Investigation of Chinese Indigenous Scriptures in Buddhist Vegetarian Halls of Southeast Asia 碧莲在南海的绽放——对东南亚佛教斋堂中中国本土经书的初步考察

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Journal of Chinese Religions Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1353/jcr.2020.0013

Show Ying Ruo

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Religious and Ethnic Revival in a Chinese Minority: The Bai People of Southwest China by Liang Yongjia (review) 中国少数民族的宗教与民族复兴——梁永嘉《西南白族》（综述）

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Journal of Chinese Religions Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1353/jcr.2020.0021

Megan Bryson

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Shamans, Souls, and Soma: Comparative Religion and Early China 萨满、灵魂与索玛：比较宗教与早期中国

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Journal of Chinese Religions Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1353/jcr.2020.0010

N. Williams

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Ancestors, Kings, and the Dao by Constance A. Cook (review) 《祖先、国王与刀》作者:康斯坦斯·库克(书评)

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Journal of Chinese Religions Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1353/jcr.2020.0014

Ori Tavor

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The First Islamic Classic in Chinese: Wang Daiyu’s by Sachiko Murata (review) 第一部伊斯兰教中文经典:王黛玉的《村田幸子》(书评)

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Journal of Chinese Religions Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1353/jcr.2020.0020

Cumali Ozkan

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Handbook on Religion in China ed. by Stephan Feuchtwang (review) 《中国宗教手册》作者:傅德旺主编(书评)