Vincent Goossaert is Professor of Daoism and Chinese Religions at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL, France.

Xun Liu is Professor of History at Rutgers University, USA.

This book questions whether temples and Daoism are two independent aspects of modern Chinese religion, or if they are indissolubly linked.

Introduction

Part I Historical overview

1. Urban Daoists, from 1860 to the present

2. The Martial Marquis Shrine: Politics of Temple Expropriation and Restitution, and Struggles of Daoist Revival in Contemporary Nanyang

Part II Spirit-writing temples and their networks

3. The Jin'gaishan Network: A lay Quanzhen Daoist Organization in Modern Jiangnan

4. The Dao in the Southern Seas: The Diffusion of the Lüzu Cult from Meizhou to Bangkok

Part III Householder urban Daoists

5. The Modern Transformations of the Old Eastern Peak Temple in Hangzhou

6. Zhengyi Daoists and the Baoqing Pier Neighborhood in Modern Hankou