U.S.-China Cooperative Research (Sociology): The Restora- tion of Religion in China; A Statistical Survey

该奖项支持夏威夷大学的Michael Saso博士和南京大学的赖永海教授就中华人民共和国中国复辟宗教的社会学方面的合作研究。这项研究将涉及对选定的主要佛教和道教宗教中心的调查，以调查民众参与恢复习俗的情况，并收集和比较记录这两个重要宗教的实践和神学的文本。中国最近的宗教自由政策带来了佛教和道教研究的复兴，这些研究再次被中国接受为大学资助的研究的一部分。这项合作研究将提供一个机会，以深入了解一个深刻的社会过程，以及社会主义政府和宗教结构之间关系的演变。该项目得到了《美国/中华人民共和国基础科学合作议定书》的支持。

This award supports cooperative research between Dr. Michael Saso of the University of Hawaii, and Professor Lai Yonghai of Nanjing University on the sociological aspects of the restoration of religion in the People's Republic of China. The research will involve a survey of selected major Buddhist and Taoist religious centers to investigate the popular involvement in the restoration of customary practice, and to collect and compare texts which document the practices and theology of these two important religions. The recent policy of freedom of religious practice in China has brought about a revival of Buddhist and Taoist studies, which have again become accepted in China as part of university-sponsored research. This collaborative research will provide an opportunity to gain insight into a profound social process and into the evolution of the relationship between a socialist government and religious structures. This project is supported under the US/PRC Protocol on Cooperation in Basic Sciences.