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Item Open Access A Sociological Consideration of Prayer and Agency(TDR/The Drama Review, 2016-12) Sun, AnnaPrayer may be seen as one of the most individual forms of action. Yet, like suicide, another supposedly individualistic action performed by a solitary individual, prayer is a dynamic, reflexive, intersubjective social action, and the sociality of prayer may transform the agency of the actor who is committed to this action over time.Item Open Access An Interview with Robert N. Bellah(Review of Religion and Chinese Society, 2013) Sun, Anna; Yang, FenggangItem Open Access Item Open Access Contemporary Confucius Temple Life in Mainland China: Report from the Field(2018-07-26) Sun, AnnaThe Varieties of Confucian Experience offers a number of ethnographic accounts of the popular Confucian revival taking place in China since the beginning of the 21st Century.Item Open Access From Confucius to Ancestors(Politics, Religion & Ideology, 2018-07-03) Sun, AnnaItem Open Access Mao-ti(London Review of Books, 2004) Sun, AnnaItem Open Access Situating Spirituality(2021)Item Open Access The Study of Chinese Religions in the Social Sciences: Beyond the Monotheistic Assumptions(2016-10-06) Sun, AnnaEach chapter of the book deals with one regional sub-discipline in Asian Studies, covering Chinese Studies, Japanese Studies, Korean Studies, South Asian Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, and Central Eurasian Studies.Item Open Access Thinking with Weber’s Religion of China in the Twenty-First Century(Review of Religion and Chinese Society, 2020-12-04) Sun, AnnaAbstract This paper proposes a new approach to Max Weber’s Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism, which is to make the development of Confucianism, rather than the development of modern capitalism, the dependent variable in our analysis of Chinese society. In this light, Weber’s treatment of Confucianism and Daoism as an interconnected whole (the orthodoxy and heterodoxy of Chinese society) may be seen as a promising step in understanding the ecological dynamics of the Chinese religious system. In this system, diverse religious traditions coexist and are often interdependent, forming a rich tapestry of practices, beliefs, and ethics that give meaning to people in their everyday lives.Item Open Access To Be or Not To Be a Confucian: Explicit and Implicit Religious Identities in the Global Twenty-First Century(Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, 2020) Sun, AnnaItem Open Access To Be or Not to Be a Confucian: Explicit and Implicit Religious Identities in the Global Twenty-First Century(Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, 2020-12-20) Sun, AnnaItem Open Access Turning Ghosts into Ancestors in Contemporary Urban China(Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Religion and Values in Public Life) Sun, Anna