David A. Palmer is an assistant professor in the department of Sociology and fellow of the Centre for Anthropological Research at the University of Hong Kong. His most recent book (co-authored with V. Goossaert) is The Religious Question in Modern China (2011).

Glenn Shive is the executive director of the Hong Kong America Center, a consortium of Hong Kong universities promoting academic exchange between the United States and Hong Kong and between the United States and China via universities in Hong Kong. His B.A. in religion and PhD in Chinese history are from Temple University in Philadelphia.

Philip L. Wickeri is Advisor to Hong Kong's Anglican Archbishop on Theological and Historical Studies and Adjunct Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California. His most recent book is Reconstructing Christianity in China: K. H. Ting and the Chinese Church (2007).

Adam Yuet Chau, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge
Lizhu Fan, Department of Sociology, Fudan University
Vincent Joseph Goossaert
Huang Chien-Yu, Institute of Anthropology, National Tsing Hua University
Andre LaLiberte, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa
Richard Paul Madsen, Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego
Charles Hammett Nolley
David A. Palmer, Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong
Glenn Shive, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Elijah Siegler, Department of Religious Studies, College of Charleston
Tam Yik Fai, Religious Studies Program, History Department, Then Pennsylvania State University
Wai-lun Tam, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Francesca Tarocco, School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, The University of Manchester
Elena Valussi, Department of Humanities, History, and Social Sciences, Columbia College
Robert P. Weller, Department of Anthropology, Boston University
James Douglas Whitehead
Philip Lauri Wickeri, San Francisco Theological Seminary, Graduate Theological Union (UC Berkeley)
Yang Fenggang, Department of Sociology, Purdue University

"The essays in this volume present data on an important contemporary development, one with implications for insight into the human condition..." --Journal of Chinese Political Science

"This book offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of religious life in contemporary China. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the book situates Chinese religious life in the wider contexts of culture, economy, politics, and globalization. Chinese Religious Life is a must-read for those who want to know the momentous religio-cultural changes in China during the past several decades."--Kwok Pui-lan, author of Chinese Women and Christianity, 1860-1927

"An excellent introduction to religion in China. It is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the various modalities of religious life amongst Chinese people...Highly recommended."--Reviews in Religion & Theology

"Chinese Religious Life is highly recommended for use in graduate seminars and as a platform for further textual, as well as field-based, research. Due to immense changes in state policies and restrictions imposed after the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and the 2012 transfer of Communist Party leadership, Chinese Religious Life has become an even more sensitive and timely topic..." --China Review International