Robert Weller is Professor of Anthropology and Research Associate at the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs at Boston University. C. Julia Huang is Professor of Anthropology at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Keping Wu is Associate Professor of Anthropology in Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong. Lizhu Fan is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Globalization and Religious Studies program at Fudan University, Shanghai.

'It will provide the roadmap for innovative anthropological theory on the subject of engaged religions in East Asian societies and encourage further research into religious voluntarism and what Joel Robbins calls 'the anthropology of the good'.' Dat Manh Nguyen, newbooks.asia (www.newbooks.asia)

• 1. Engaged religions and the social life of goodness; 2. Legacies and discontinuities in China, Taiwan and Malaysia; 3. Political merit-making: religious philanthropy and the state; 4. A (Chinese) good person; 5. Gifts, groups, and goodness; 6. Innovating the good; 7. Alternative goodness; 8. Conclusion: the unlimited good in context.

Robert Weller is Professor of Anthropology and Research Associate at the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs at Boston University. C. Julia Huang is Professor of Anthropology at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Keping Wu is Associate Professor of Anthropology in Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong. Lizhu Fan is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Globalization and Religious Studies program at Fudan University, Shanghai.

'It will provide the roadmap for innovative anthropological theory on the subject of engaged religions in East Asian societies and encourage further research into religious voluntarism and what Joel Robbins calls 'the anthropology of the good'.' Dat Manh Nguyen, newbooks.asia (www.newbooks.asia)

• 1. Engaged religions and the social life of goodness; 2. Legacies and discontinuities in China, Taiwan and Malaysia; 3. Political merit-making: religious philanthropy and the state; 4. A (Chinese) good person; 5. Gifts, groups, and goodness; 6. Innovating the good; 7. Alternative goodness; 8. Conclusion: the unlimited good in context.