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Continental East Asia

He Guanghu, Chung Chin-hong, and

Lee Chang-yick*

CHINA

The prehistory, emergence, and disappearance of religious

studies in China 160

The revival of religious studies 163

The development of the study of religions 164

Prospects 173

KOREA

The strangeness of ‘religion’ 175

The proliferation of ‘religion’ 177

The development of a study of religion 179

Notes 185

References 185

* The section on China is by He Guanghu, that on Korea is by Chung Chin-hong

and Lee Chang-yick. In this chapter, family names precede personal ones, in

accordance with East Asian conventions.