Eric Reinders

Eric Reinders is associate professor of Religion in the Department of Religion, Emory University, Atlanta.  He is the author of Borrowed Gods and Foreign Bodies: Christian Missionaries Imagine Chinese Religion (University of California, 2004), co-author of Buddhism and Iconoclasm in East Asia (Bloomsbury, 2012), and the forthcoming Buddhist and Christian Responses to the Kowtow Problem in China (Bloomsbury).


Research Interests: Chinese Religion, Medieval Buddhism, Buddhist Monasticism, Christian Missionary Cultures                                                                               

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Blog posts

The Economies of Temple Chanting and Conversion in China