在人類歷史的發展歷程中，宗教從一開始就扮演了重要的角色，因此宗教史的研究向來是學術界的主要課題之一，1970年代以來更逐漸成為國際漢學界的「顯學」。漢學會議宗教篇收羅十七篇會議論文，分為佛教與社會、宗教與藝術、道教、中國近代宗教四個主題，邀請國內外著名的宗教學者就佛教、道教、宗教藝術、民間信仰、民間教派等宗教活動及其內涵，發表最新的研究成果。學者所使用的資料包括正史、地方志、檔案、筆記、小說、戲劇、報章雜誌、經書、科儀本、藝術品等，有些學者也進行了田野調查，對專題做出深入的探討。就整體而言，本書內容豐富，論述精湛，更有廣闊的視野，是一本具有前瞻性的宗教研究專書。

明初礼俗改革是中国近世文化史上影响深远的重要事件，然而由于《明史》等清修史籍对相关内容的隐没和淡化，明初这一重要的文化和社会变革，尚未引起足够的关注和重视。
朱明政权起源于被正统士大夫视为叛逆、带有浓厚宗教色彩的红巾武装；在元季士人普遍固执“君臣大义”而不讲“华夷之辨”的思想背景下，如何论证政权合法性、争取士大夫的认同和支持，成为明代开国之初需要迫切解决的问题。在古代中国，儒家意识形态是政治合法性的基本来源，这就促使明初当政者不得不依照儒家的政治理想，通过文化重建来努力塑造自身的正统形象。洪武时期的礼俗改革，便是在这种特殊的政治和思想背景下展开的。
从衣冠服饰、婚嫁丧祭，到日常生活中的礼仪细节，明初礼俗改革涉及的范围甚为广泛。其所关注和针对的内容，大致可以归纳为两类。一是遵照儒家政治理念，对元代因“宽纵”而造成的各种失序现象进行严厉清整，建立符合儒家理想的社会秩序。其次是以“用夏变夷”为旗号，对元代社会生活中弥漫的“胡风”进行清整，恢复汉族的文化传统。当政者试图用重新划分“胡汉”文化界限的方式，唤醒士大夫淡漠已久的族群意识，建立他们对明政权的认同。这些措施使得元明易代在文化上，显示出明显的“夷夏”变革色彩。
明初进行的礼俗改革，通过与儒家意识形态的呼应，成功地树立起明政权作为“华夏正统”的形象。在这一过程中，精英思想与国家权力密切配合，大大加速了宋代以来儒学（理学）思想制度化、常识化和风俗化的历史进程。洪武礼俗改革不仅塑造了明代前期社会生活的基本面貌，而且其所恢复和构建起来的基本价值观念和社会规范，还奠定了有明一代社会文化的基调和底色，产生了深远的历史影响。

This study analyzes the identities of the five-fury spirits in light of the cult's historical linkages with local society in southern Anhui and with other religious traditions in a larger context. These two contexts interacted in complex ways to generate, around the time of the mid-Ming, a localized religious order. Guo explores not only how history transformed the symbolic order, but also how history itself was symbolically ordered and reordered in the process. This monograph is intended to add a symbolic dimension to a classic issue in the study of Ming-Qing social history: the state-society relation on the one hand and the elite-commoner and gentry-merchant relations on the other. By tracing the integration and gentrification of localized gods back to the mid Ming, Guo also demonstrates how popular religion accompanied the socioeconomic changes that swept the entire empire during the sixteenth century.

Provides a lively description of how the cult of a popular plague-fighting deity named Marshal Wen arose and spread in late imperial China.
One of the few full-length regional studies of popular religion in late imperial China, this book presents the history of the cult of Marshal Wen, a plague-fighting deity whose cult flourished through Chekiang and its neighboring provinces. The author provides a lively account of the rise of Wen's cult during the tumultuous years of the Southern Sung dynasty, as well as its spread during subsequent dynasties. In exploring the roles played by scholar-officials, merchants, and Taoist priests in the growth of Wen's cult, the author pays special attention to the various representations of this deity held by different social groups, and shows that these were constantly interacting in a process he calls "reverberation." His analysis of plague expulsion festivals featuring Marshal Wen reveals that they functioned as rites of affliction designed to both achieve communal purification and resolve social crises.
This book draws on a wide variety of sources, including Taoist scriptures and liturgical texts, stele inscriptions, literati writings (including poetry), manuscripts from local archives, as well as popular novels and folktales. The author also supplements his historical research with data gathered during fieldwork in Chekiang and Taiwan.
"I found it absolutely fascinating. The material is extremely compelling, partly because the sources are unusual and partly because the cult of King Wen turns out to be far more important than it has been given credit for.
"Specialists and casual readers alike have long known that a important feature of traditional religion involves control of disease and epidemics. Specialist have also known that disease-related cults existed along the Southeast Chinese coastal areas, often linked to the syllable 'wen.' This is the first book to address this directly. Growing interest in the role of disease in history and in the anthropology of medicine adds to the timeliness of the topic. The beginning of the book throws the issue of disease into high relief and shows that religious reactions to epidemics will necessarily be an important issue, one which we have tended to overlook because fear of epidemics is peripheral in contemporary Chinese religion. Katz then draws on evidence confirming the importance of fear of epidemics in Chinese religion, highlights some of the confusing ambiguities that have bedeviled the study of this, and then clearly lays out the historical materials that document the growth of plague god cults in late imperial China." -- David K. Jordan, University of California, San Diego

This book considers the ways in which religious beliefs and practices have contributed to the formation of Chinese legal culture. It does so by describing two forms of overlap between religion and the law: the ideology of justice and the performance of judicial rituals. One of the most important conceptual underpinnings of the Chinese ideology of justice is the belief in the inevitability of retribution. Similar values permeate Chinese religious traditions, all of which contend that justice will prevail despite corruption and incompetence among judicial officials in this world and even the underworld, with all wrongdoers eventually suffering some form of punishment.The second form of overlap between religion and the law may be found in the realm of practice, and involves instances when men and women perform judicial rituals like oaths, chicken-be headings, and underworld indictments in order to enhance the legitimacy of their positions, deal with cases of perceived injustice, and resolve disputes. These rites coexist with other forms of legal practice, including private mediation and the courts, comprising a wide-ranging spectrum of practices. "Divine Justice" will be of enormous interest to scholars of the Chinese legal system and the development of Chinese culture and society more generally.

"Precious volumes," or "pao-chuan," were produced by popular sects in the Ming and early Qing dynasties. These scriptures were believed to have been divinely revealed to sect leaders and contain teachings and ritual instructions that provide valuable information about a lively and widespread religious tradition outside mainstream Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. Largely neglected until now, they testify to the imagination and devotion of popular religious leaders. This book, the most detailed and comprehensive study of "pao-chuan" in any language, studies 34 early examples of this literature in order to understand the origins and development of this textual tradition. Although the work focuses on content and structure, it also treats the social context of these works as well as their transmission and ritual use.

本书纵观了从汉代到本世纪上半叶民间宗教教派的历史以及与佛教各宗、道教、儒教、秘密结社、农民战争的关系、印度教的历史等。全书共20余万字。该书系美籍加拿大学者欧大年的学术代表作,1976年由哈佛大学出版，得到了西方学术界的高度评价。全书共分9章。

《中国民间宗教简史》即完成于1994年，出版于1998年的《民间宗教志》。此志虽然出版七年，但得阅者几稀，所以上海人民出版社虞信棠先生希望再版此书时，我欣然允诺。这部简史与前者优劣何在呢？前者包罗万象，近120万字，非相关专业人士几难卒读。
民间宗教是中国宗教信仰领域的重要组成部分，是中国传统文化的有机组成部分，本书上起汉末、魏曹，下迄清末，历时近两千载，对影响深远的弥勒教、摩尼教、白莲教、无力教、闻香教、斋教、黄无教、八卦教等十三支民间宗教，从历史沿革、组织结构、经典教义等方面进行深入地介绍与探讨。尤是对明清两的民间宗教，作者引用了大量官书、档案等第一手资料，经过认真、细密的考证，力图接近历史的原貌，既具有很强的可读性，又不失其学术性。

分6编，介绍洪门的沿革、组织、会物、规律、一般应用诗句等。卷首有“编辑本书之十大要旨”。

中國從元代起，民間就出現各種教派；以扶乩為中心的拜鸞團體在十九世紀末，便已在台灣出現。過去，由於中國大陸的宗教政策，民間教派的發展受到壓制，難以進行研究。台灣的民間教派，則繼承了傳統，地方上仍可看見歷史傳流下來的拜鸞儀式、經文及乩書，學者可以透過直接參與、觀察及紀錄，了解中國民間宗教的深層意義。

《千年末世之乱:1813年八卦教起义》内容简介：1813年的八卦教起义是由信奉千年末世思想的白莲教不断发动的起义中的一次。《千年末世之乱:1813年八卦教起义》详细探讨了白莲教的信仰、其内部组织和教派活动。作者描绘了这些通常只是关注日常宗教事务的孤立小教派是如何转变为一场宣称千年王国到来的反叛运动的，以及他们如何竭力挑战现存的政府，宣布一个“无穷富贵”时代的降临，而最终归于失败。
韩书瑞之所以能对这次起义一幕幕地再现。靠的是她利用了四百多被俘反叛者的供词。这些材料以难得的详尽揭示了具体人的个性、宗教信仰以及清朝时期的日常生活。此外，靠这些材料才能首次从参加者的视角描绘出一次中国的反叛。作者使用了新的材料以及精湛的叙事技巧给了我们一个社会史的优秀成果，还第一次全面研究7尚有影响的中国传统的千年末世思想。

薩滿信仰的歷史考察-文史哲學集成，ISBN：9789575479978，作者：莊吉發

本書出自2010年10月德國萊比錫大學召開的學術研討會論文，是該研討會學術成果的見證，也希望通過雙語模式溝通東西方兩地的學術界並促進日後中國宗教研究的交流與合作。這些論文從主題性及方法論兩方面展現了中國和歐洲學術界針對明清時代至近代、現代中國大陸及臺灣兩地民間信仰和民間宗教的研究，包括地區性宗教生活（如針對江南、河北、山西、福建、四川及臺灣等地）、神靈信仰（如媽祖、龍王、孔子及五通等）、善書、巫術恐慌以及民間宗教團體和社會及其他宗教傳統之間的關係等。

中国民间秘密宗教已有1800多年的历史。它具有自身的特点，并对中国社会、中国历史和中国民间习俗等产生了不可忽视的影响。研究中国民间秘密宗教，是中国历史、中国民俗史以及中国民间基层社会组织等学科中不可或缺的方面，具有重要的价值和意义。虽然近百年来，海内外不少学者发表过一些有关中国民间秘密宗教的论著，但全面论述的专著却屈指可数，至于这方面的专科辞典更是久告厥如。本辞典的出版填补了这一空白！本辞典涵盖了中国民间秘密宗教的方方面面，资料详实，阐释全面、深刻，反映了对这一领域的研究成果和水平。它的出版不仅有助于人们全面了解中国民间秘密宗教，而且对推动这一领域及相关方面的研究也必将产生作用。

本书是一项民俗学视野下的专题性历史民俗文献的断代研究，主要运用比较、文本分析等方法，对明代岁时民俗文献中的岁时记、地方志的岁时民俗记述等进行了专门研究。