The Space of Religion

Finalist, 2024 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Analytical-Descriptive Studies, American Academy of Religion Honorable Mention, 2024 Francis H.K. Hsu Book Prize, Society for East Asian Anthropology The Nanputuo Temple in the southeastern Chinese city of Xiamen has been a cherished site for the worship of the bodhisattva Guanyin for centuries. It was a center of modernizing Buddhism in the early twentieth century and a flagship for the revival of Buddhism after state suppression d