@article{1374269,
      recid = {1374269},
      author = {Sommer, Deborah,},
      title = {Chinese religion : an anthology of sources /},
      publisher = {Oxford University Press,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {xxiii, 375 pages ;},
      year = {1995},
      note = {Translated from Chinese.},
      abstract = {For centuries, westerners have referred to China's  numerous traditions of spiritual expression as  "religious"--A word born of western thought that cannot  completely characterize the passionate writing that fills  the pages of this pathbreaking anthology. The first of its  kind in well over thirty years, this text offers the  student of Chinese ritual and cosmology the broadest range  of primary sources from antiquity to the modern era.  Readings are arranged chronologically and cover such  concepts as Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and even  communism. A large number of the selections concern the  role of the female in Chinese religion, and are either by  or about women. Through invocations, poetry, drama,  philosophical texts, religious treatises, and modern  fiction, students hear the voices of numerous Chinese  masters expounding on the movements and traditions that  inspired them: the mysterious Tao-te ching of Lao Tzu,  cloaked in the mists of deepest antiquity; the Analects of  stately, reverent Confucius; "Nailing a Stick into Empty  Space," from The Recorded Conversations of Ch'an Master  I-hsuan, and many others, including the work of Mencius,  Pan Chao, Han Shan, Chang Tsai, Wang Yang-ming, Lu Hsun,  and Mao Tse-tung. Fully one third of the translations are  new, and each reading is preceded by an introduction that  explains its importance and salient features. Complete with  a helpful chronology of dynasties and list of possible  video sources, this remarkable volume collects under one  cover the most significant and influential works of China's  dynamic spiritual tradition, making a fundamental  contribution to courses in Chinese religion, literature,  and history.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1374269},
}