Zhongguo zongjiao baogao 中国宗教报告 (2008) ed by Jin Ze 金泽, Qiu Yonghui 邱永辉, and: Zhongguo zongjiao baogao 中国宗教报告 (2009) ed. by Jin Ze 金泽, Qiu Yonghui 邱永辉 (review)

152 Journal of Chinese Religions Zhongguo zongjiao baogao 中国宗教报告 (2008) Edited by JIN ZE 金泽 and QIU YONGHUI 邱永辉. Beijing: Shehui kexue wenxian chubanshe 社会科学文献出版社, 2008. 285 pages (incl. CD-Rom). ISBN 978-7-50970252 -9/B-0015. RMB 49.00 paper. Zhongguo zongjiao baogao 中国宗教报告 (2009) Edited by JIN ZE 金泽 and QIU YONGHUI 邱永辉. Beijing: Shehui kexue wenxian chubanshe 社会科学文献出版社, 2009. 311 pages (incl. CD-Rom). ISBN 978-7-50970849 -1. RMB 59.00 paper. These are the first two volumes in a series of “Blue Books of Religions” (zongjiao lanpishu 宗教蓝皮书), published by the Institute of World Religions of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences 中国社会科学院世界宗教研究所. They contain mostly state of the field surveys, with a sprinkling of more focused specialized research reports, and are indispensible sources of insights into current developments in Chinese scholarship and policy. The 2008 volume contains articles on Religious Studies as an academic discipline in China, on recent developments in Daoism and Chinese and Tibetan Buddhism, on Chinese Islam, Sino-Christian theology, on new theoretical approaches in the study of Chinese popular religion, and on various policy issues (Sino-Vatican relations, religion & international security, religions and PRC foreign affairs, legalization of religions in China, “cultic studies”). The 2009 volume offers a similar range of articles on the current state of Buddhism, Daoism, Catholicism, Protestantism, Islam, Confucianism, and popular religion. In addition we find theoretical discussions of the study of religions in China, an article on religions and the financial crisis, as well as field reports on Christianity and popular religion in various provinces, and a statistical study of religious faith among college students. PHILIP CLART, Universität Leipzig Laoshan lun dao 崂山论道 Edited by LI ZONGXIAN 李宗贤. Beijing: Zongjiao wenghua chubanshe 宗教文化出版 社, 2007. ISBN 978-7-80123-937-2. RMB 55.00 paper. Conferences on the future of Daoism are all the rage in China, but one of the more established and successful venues has been Laoshan 崂山 in Shandong province, where the speeches that ...