Session Two: Religion in China

Dunch, Ryan. "Protestant Christianity in China Today: Fragile, Fragmented, Flourishing." In China and Christianity: Burdened Past, Hopeful Future, edited by Stephen Uhalley Jr. and Xiaoxin Wu. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2000.

Fan, Maureen. "In China, Churches Challenge the Rules; Bold Congregations Risk Official Wrath." The Washington Post, October 1, 2006.

Madsen, Richard. "Catholic Revival During the Reform Era." The China Quarterly 174 (July 2003): 468-487.

Potter, Pitman P. "Belief in Control: Regulation of Religion in China." The China Quarterly, 174 (July 2003): 317-337.

Tocqueville, Alexis de. "Introduction." In Democracy in America, Volume I. New York: Bantam, 2000.

Tocqueville, Alexis de. "Part 1, Chapter 2: Concerning Their Point of Departure and its Importance for the Future of the Anglo-Americans," pp.32-44. In Democracy in America, Volume I. New York: Bantam, 2000.

Tocqueville, Alexis de. "Part 1, Chapters 5-7." In Democracy in America, Volume I. New York: Bantam, 2000.

Tocqueville, Alexis de. "Part 2, Chapters 9 and 15." In Democracy in America, Volume II. New York: Bantam, 2000.

Tocqueville, Alexis de. "Chapter 2: How Irreligion was able to become a General and Dominant Passion among the French of the Eighteenth Century, and what Kind of Influence this had on the Character of the Revolution." In The Old Regime and the Revolution, Volume III. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

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