Shanghai Sacred

Benoit Vermander is professor of religious studies and director of the Xu-Ricci Dialogue Institute at Fudan University, Shanghai. He is the author of Corporate Social Responsibility in China: A Vision, an Assessment and a Blueprint. Photographer and anthropologist Liz Hingley was a visiting scholar at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (2013–2016). She is currently artist-in-residence at the Human Geography Department, University College London, and an honorary research fellow in the Department of Philosophy and Theology at the University of Birmingham. Liang Zhang is research assistant in the Institute of Religious Studies at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.

"This empirically rich and analytically engaging book shows that Shanghai is not only a cosmopolitan city where East meets West in China, or a thriving metropolis that positions itself as both the home of the revolutionary movement and the cornerstone of Chinese ‘modernity,’ but that it is also an important global center in terms of cultural and religious diversity."