Preface ......................................................... 5
Chapter I. Original Religions and folk Religions of Chinese
Minorities ...................................................... 9
I Origin of Primitive Religious Beliefs ...................... 10
II Original Religions of Chinese Ethnic Minorities ............ 22
III Folk Religion of Chinese Minorities ........................ 53
Chapter II. Taolst Belief among Chinese Minorttjes ............. 57
I Taoism of the Yao Ethnic Group ............................. 59
II The Influence of Taoism on Other Ethnic Minorities ......... 61
Chapter III. Buddhist Belief Among Chinese Minorities .......... 65
I Ethnic Minorities and Tibetan Buddhism ..................... 66
II Ethnic Minorities and Southern Buddhism .................... 77
III Ethnic Minorities and Inland Buddhism ..................... 106
Chapter IV. Chinese Minorities and Islamic Belief ............. 109
I Hui Ethnic Group and Islam ................................ 111
II Uygur Ethnic Group and Islam .............................. 113
III Other Ethnic Groups Belief in Islam ....................... 116
Chapter V. Christian Belief of Chinese Minorities ............. 121
I Ethnic Minorities and Catholicism ......................... 123
II Ethnic Minorities and Orthodox Church ..................... 128
III Ethnic Minorities and Protestantism ....................... 128
Chapter VI. "Historical Religions" of Chinese Minorities ...... 131
I Nestorianism............................................... 132
II Magianism ................................................. 134
III Manichaeism ............................................... 135
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