Heterodoxy in late Imperial China / edited by Kwang-Ching Liu and Richard Shek.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Early Daoism in retrospect: cosmology, ethics, and eschatology / Kwang-Ching Liu and Richard Shek -- Ethics and polity: the heterodoxy of Buddhism, Maitreyanism, and the early White Lotus / Richard Shek -- The origins of Ming Buddhist schism / Whalen W. Lai -- Daoism and orthodoxy: the loyal and filial sect / Richard Shek -- Daoism and local cults: a case study of the Cult of Marshal Wen / Paul R. Katz -- Shamanism in the eyes of the Ming and Qing elites / Donald S. Sutton -- Eternal mother religion: its history and ethics / Richard Shek and Tetsurō Noguchi -- Religion and politics in the White Lotus Rebellion of 1796 in Hubei / Kwang-Ching Liu -- The triads and their ideology up to the early nineteenth century: a brief history / Wen-hsiung Hsu -- The Heaven and Earth Society in the nineteenth century: an interpretation / David Faure -- The Taipings in Chinese sectarian perspective / P. Richard Bohr -- Popular and elite heterodoxy toward the end of the Qing / Don C. Price.