Chinese Religions : A Reading Guide
John Roxborogh
Anderson, Norman. Christianity and world religions, IVP.
Brown, David A. A guide to religions, TEF Study Guide 12, SPCK.
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Eliade, M. History of Religous ideas, 3 vols, Chicago University Press.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics (Hastings)
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Hexham, Irving Concise Dictionary of Religion, Inter-Varsity Press, 1993.
Hinnells, J. ed. The Penguin Dictionary of religions, Allen Lane, 1984.
Ling, Trevor. A history of religion East and West, Macmillan, 1968.
Lion Handbook, The world’s religions, 1982.
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Noss, John B. Man’s Religions, Macmillan.
Osborne, Richard and Borin Van Loon, Ancient Eastern Philosophy for Beginners, Icon, 1996.
Themelios 9(2), Jan 1984. Christianity and world religions.
Whaling, Frank. Religion in today’s world, T&T Clark, 1987.
Bloomfield, Frena. The book of Chinese beliefs, Arrow, 1983.
Cheu Hock Tong ed., Chinese Beliefs and Practices in Southeast Asia, Pelanduk, 1993
Ching, Julia. Chinese religions, Macmillan/Orbis, 1993. [Recommended]
de Bary, W T, Wing-Tsit Chan and Chester Tan, Sources of Chinese tradition, Columbia University, 1964.
Overmyer, Daniel L. Religions of China, Harper, 1986.
Weller, Robert P. Unities and diversities in Chinese religion, Macmillan, 1987.
Burnett, David. The Spirit of Buddhism, Monarch, 1992.
Conze, Edward. Buddhist Scriptures, Penguin, 1959.
Cousins, L S. “Ethical standards in world religions: III, Buddhism,” Expository Times, 85(4), Jan 1974, pp.100-104.
Drummond, Richard H. Gautama the Buddha. An essay in religious understanding, Eerdmans, 1974.
Humphreys, Christmas. Buddhism, Penguin, 1962.
Parrinder, Geoffrey. Asian Religions, Sheldon, 1977.
Robinson, Richard H and W L Johnson, The Buddhist Religion, Wadsworth, 1982.
Weerasingha, Tissa. ‘Concepts of salvation in Buddhism,’ Evangelical Review of Theology, 15(1) Jan 1991
Viradhammo, Ajahn. “Buddhism”, in Peter Donovan, ed., Religions of New Zealanders, Dunmore Press, 1990, 32-45.
Ching, Julia. Chinese Religions, Orbis, 1993, 51-84.
Smith, D Howard. Confucius, Paladin, 1974.
Ching, Julia. Chinese Religions, Orbis, 1993, 85-120.
Schloegl, I. The wisdom of the Zen masters, Sheldon, London, 1975.
Suzuki, D T. An introduction to Zen Buddhism, Ridder, 1969.
Smith, D H. “Teaching and practice in Chinese religion,” Expository Times, 85(7) Apr 1974, pp.201-205.
Von der Mehden, Fred R. Religion and modernization in Southeast Asia, Syracuse University Press, 1986.
Chen. Kenneth Kuan-Sheng. Buddhism in China. A historical survey. Princeton, 1964.
Ching, Julia. Chinese Religions, Orbis, 1993.
Lancashire, Douglas. “Buddhism in modern china,” Religion in Communist Lands, 5(4) 1977, pp.220-228.
Welch, H. “Buddhism since the Cultural Revolution,” China Quarterly, 40, Oct-Dec, 1969, pp.127-136.
Wing-tsit Chan, A source book in Chinese philosophy, Princeton, 1963.
Adams, D J. "The roots of Korean theology," Taiwan Journal of Theology, 7, 1985, 187-207.
Barclay, W C. History of Methodist missions, vol 3, Widening horizons, 1845-95, 741-757.
Blair, W and B Hunt, The Korean Pentecost and the sufferings which followed, Banner of Truth, 1977.
Brown, G Thompson. ‘Why has Christianity grown faster in Korea than in China? Missiology 22(1) Jan 1994,’ 77-88.
Clark, A D. A history of the church in Korea, CLS Korea, 1971.
Clark, D N. Christianity in modern Korea, University Press of America, 1986.
Democratization movement and the Christian Church in Korea during the 1970s, CISSJD.
Davies, Daniel M. The life and thought of Henry Gerhard Apppenzeller (1858-1902): missionary to Korea, Edwin Mellen, 1988.
Diaz, Hector. A Korean theology. Chu-Gyo Yo-Ji: Essentials of the Lord's teaching by Chong Yak-jong Augustine (1760-1801), Neue Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft, 1986.
Far Eastern Economic Review, 19 April 1984, pp.44-55.
Hanson, E O. Catholic politics in China and Korea, Orbis, 1980.
Hong, H S, Won Yong Ji and Chung Choon Kim, Korea struggles for Christ, CLS, 1966.
Hunt, E N. Protestant pioneers in Korea, Orbis, 1980
Huntley, Martha. Caring, growing, changing. A history of the Protestant mission in Korea [1884-1919], Friendship Press, New York, 1984.
International Review of Mission, 714(293), January 1985.
Janelli, Roger and Dawnhee. Ancestor worship and Korea society, Stanford University Press, 1982.
Jung Young Lee, "The American missionary movement in Korea, 1882-1945: its contributions and American diplomacy," Missiology, 9(4), 1983, 387-402.
Kim, Joseph Chang-mun and John Jae-sun Chung, Catholic Korea yesterday and today, Seoul, 1964.
Kim Yong Bok, Minjung theology: people as the subjects of history, CCA, 1981.
Minjung Theology. People as the subjects of history, Commission on Theological Concerns of the CCA, Orbis, 1983.
Nevius, J L. "Planting and development of missionary churches," in F M Du Bose, ed., Classics of Christian missions, Broadmans, 1979, 256-267.
Ogle, G E. Liberty to the captives. The struggle against oppression in South Korea, John Knox, 1977.
Park, P B. "Christianity in the land of Shamanism, Buddhism and Confucianism," South East Asia Journal of Theology, 14(1), 1972, 33-39.
Pascoe, C F. Two hundred years of SPG, 1701-1900, vol.2, 712-715.
Reunification. Peace and Justice in Korea. Christian response in the 1980s, CCA/IA, 1988.
Ro Bong-Rin, and M L Nelson, eds. Korean church growth explosion, Centennial of the Protestant Church (1884-1984), Word of Life, ATA, 1983.
Shearer, R E. Wildfire: church growth in Korea, Eerdmans, 1969.
Underwood, Horace G. ‘Christianity in Korea,’ Missiology 22(1) Jan 1994, 65-76.
Wi Jo Kang, "The first Protestant missionary in Korea and early U.S.-Korean relations," Missiology, 9(4), 1983, 403-418.
Wi Jo Kang, "The relationship between Christian communities and Chung Hee Park's government in Korea," Missiology, 9(3), 1981, 345-358.
Yoo, Boo-Woong. Korean Pentecostalism, its history and theology. Studies in the intercultural history of Christianity, 52, Peter Lang, Frankfurt, 1988.
Yoo, Boo-Woong, “Response to Korean Shamanism by the Pentecostal Church,” International Review of Mission 75, January 1986, 70-74.
Earhart, H Byron. Religions of Japan, Harper, 1984.
Mullins, Mark. Christianity made in Japan, University of Hawaii Press.
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
Appleton, G. Christian presence amid Buddhism, SCM, 1961.
Chansong, S. Thai customs and the Christian faith, Bangkok, Kanok Bannasan, 1987
Cohon, E. “Christianity and Buddhism in Thailand: the ‘Battle of the Axes” and the “Contest of Power”, Social Compass 38(2) 1981, 115-137.
Gosling, David. “New directions in Thai Buddhism,” Modern Asian Studies, 3, 1980, pp.411-439.
Gustafson, J. Syncretistic rural Thai Buddhism, Fuller Theological Seminary, MA Thesis, 1970.
Keyes, Charles. “Why the Thai are not Christians: Buddhist and Christian Conversion in Thailand”, in R W Hefer, ed., Conversion to Christianity, University of California Press, 1993, 259-283.
Kim, S. The unfinished mission in Thailand: DMiss thesis, The uncertain Christian impact on the Buddhist heartland, East-West Center for Mission, Research and Development, 1980.
King, W L. Buddhism and Christianity: some bridges of understanding, Allen and Unwin, 1963.
Lester, Robert C. Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia, University of Michigan, 1973.
Saad, C. A study of the impact of Christian missions on Thai culture, PhD, Presbyterian College and Theological Seminary, Korea, 1985.
Seeley, F M. “Thai Buddhism and the Christian Faith,” South East Asia Journal of Theology, 10:2-3, 1968/69.
Swanson, H R. “Reflections on Christianity in the Thai- Buddhist context,” Asia Journal of Theology, 7(1) 1993, 185-191.
Petchsongkram, Wan. Talk in the shade of the Bo tree, Thai Gospel Press, 1975. [BV4319]
Thaiwatcharamas, Pracha. “God and Christ in the context of Buddhism,” in V Samuel and C Sugden, Sharing Jesus in the Two-thirds world, 204-216.
Weerasingha, Tissa. “Concepts of salvation in Buddhism,” Evangelical Review of Theology, 15(1) January 1991, 62-75.
Harwood, H J. “Salvation and the Burman Buddhist,” International Review of Mission, 38(152), Oct 1949, 422-431.
Lester, Robert C. Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia, University of Michigan, 1973.
Young, Richard Fox. “Adversarial images of Jesus Christ in the 18th and 19th Century Buddhist-Hindu Folklore, Dharma Deepika 2(2) December 1996, 66-74.
Ackerman and Lee, "Ideology, Authority and Conflict in a Chinese Religious Movement in West Malaysia", S.E. Asian Ethnography, No. 2, 1983
Ackerman, S.E., and Lee, L.M.Raymond, Heaven in Transition, Forum, Kuala Lumpur, 1990
Cheu Hock Tong (ed.), Chinese Beliefs and Practices in Southeast Asia, Pelanduk, 1993
Cheu, Hock Tong, The Nine Emperor Gods
Choo, Chin Tow, Some Sociological Aspects of Chinese Temples in Kuala Lumpur, MA Thesis, University of Malaya
Clammer, John. Singapore. Ideology, Society, Culture, Chopmen, Singapore, 1985, 170pp.
Clammer, John. The sociology of Singapore religion. Studies in Christianity and Chinese culture, Chopmen, 1991.
Coppel, Charles A "The Origins of Confucianism as an Organized Religion in Java, 1900-1923, Journal of Southeast Asia Studies, 1981
Coppel, Charles A. Contemporary Confucianism in Indonesia, Proceedings of the Seventh IAHA Conference, Bangkok, 1977, Vol.2
Elliott, Alan J.A. Chinese Spirit-Medium Cults in Singapore, Athlone Press: London, 1955
Freeman and Topley, "Religion an Social Realignment among the Chinese in Singapore", Journal of Asian Studies, 1961
Lee, Raymond, "Continuity and Change in Chinese Spirit Mediumship in Urban Malaysia", Bijdragen, deel 142, 1986.
Lee, Raymond, "Dancing with the Gods: A Spirit Medium Festival in Urban Malaysia", Anthropos, Vol 78, 1983
Leo, Suryadinata, "Confucianism in Indonesia, Past and Present", The Chinese Minority in Indonesia, Chapman Enterprise, Singapore, 1978
Liow Woon Khin, Benny. ‘Buddhist temples and associations in Penang, 1845-1948,’ Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 256, 62(1), 1989, 57-87.
McDougall, Colin, Buddhism in Malaya, Donald Moore, Singapore, 1956
Tan Chee Beng, "Pemujaan Nenek-Moyang Orang Cina di Malaysia", Journal of Malaysian Studies, Vol 2, 1963.
Teo, Eng-Soon, Malayan Buddhism: A Critical Examination, Eastern University Press, Singapore.
Tham, Seong Chee, Religion and Modernization, Graham Brash, Singapore, 1985
Topley, "Chinese Religion an Religious Institutions in Singapore", Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Pt I, 1956
Topley, "Chinese Rites for the Repose of the Soul, with special reference to Cantonese Custom", Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Pt I, 1952
Topley, "Paper Charms and Prayer Sheets as Adjuncts to Chinese Worship", Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Pt 1, 1953
Topley, Marjorie, "Some Occasional Rites performed by the Singapore Chinese", Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Pt III, 1951.
Wee, Vivienne, Chinese Folk Religion in Singapore: An Ethnographic Study, M. Soc, Sci. thesis, University of Singapore, 1977.
Wong, C.S. A Cycle of Chinese Festivities
Yen, Ching Hwang, "The Confucian revival movement in Singapore and Malaya, 1899-1911", Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 1976.
Ching Feng
Taiwan Mission
International Journal of Frontier Missions 10(3) July 1993
Bong Ring Ro, Christian alternatives to ancestor practices, Asia Theological Association, 1985.
Carpenter, Mary Yeo. “Familism and Ancestor Veneration”, Missiology 24(4) Oct 1996, 503-518.
Christian witness to Buddhists, Lausanne Occasional Papers #6, 1980.
Christian witness to the Chinese people, Lausanne Occasional Papers #6, 1980.
Covell, Ralph R. Confucius, the Buddha and Christ, Orbis, 1986.
King, W L. Buddhism and Christianity, 1963.