Special Issue:
Buddhist Activism and Chinese Modernity
Guest Editor: Hung-yok Ip

      Articles

• Introduction: Buddhist Activism and Chinese Modernity
  By Hung-yok Ip

• Buddhism, Resistance, and Collaboration in Manchuria
  By James Carter

• Buddhist Contribution to the Socialist Transformation of Buddhism in China: Activities of Ven. Juzan during 1949–1953
  By Xue Yu

• Writing History of Buddhist Thought in the Twentieth Century: Yinshun (1906-2005) in the Context of Chinese Buddhist Historiography
  By Marcus Bingenheimer

• Modernization and Traditionalism in Buddhist Almsgiving: The Case of the Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu-chi Association in Taiwan
  By Charles B. Jones

• Toward A Buddhist Theory of Justice
  By James Blumenthal

• Interpreting the Diamond Way: Contemporary Convert Buddhism in Transition
  By Burkhard Scherer

• Border country dharma: Buddhism, Ireland and peripherality
  By Laurence Cox and Maria Griffin

      Book Review

• British Buddhism: Teachings, practice and development. By Robert Bluck. Reviewed by Simon G. Smith
• Contemporary Religious Movements in Taiwan: Rhetorics of Persuasion. By Kai-ti Chou. Reviewed by Charles B. Jones
• North American Buddhists in Social Context. Edited by Paul David Numrich. Reviewed by Scott A. Mitchell
• Buddhism in the Public Sphere: Reorienting Global Interdependence. By Peter D. Hershock. Reviewed by Natalie Fisk Quli
• The Making of Buddhist Modernism. By David L. McMahan. Reviewed by Brooke Schedneck
• Pure Land Buddhism in Modern Japanese Culture. By Elisabetta Porcu. Reviewed by Jeff Wilson
• Buddhism and Postmodern Imaginings in Thailand: The Religiosity of Urban Space. By James Taylor. Reviewed by Charles Keyes

     Critical Note

• Development of Interest in Buddhism in the Czech Republic.
  By Jitka Cirklová
• Laurence O’Rourke / U Dhammaloka: working-class Irish freethinker, and the first European bhikkhu? By Laurence Cox