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Early Chinese Religion is an extraordinary achievement. At once a summa of what we know about early Chinese religion, a critique of previous views, and an occasionally radical reimagining of early Chinese religion, it can function both as a reference work and as an introduction to the state of the art in the study of early Chinese religion. For the student of Chinese religion, of comparative religion, and of folk religion, it is a work of fundamental importance. - David Elton Gay, Indiana University, in: Journal of Folklore Research, posted April 20, 2011, in the online e-review service. The field of early Chinese religions has often been dealt with but never in such an abundance and by so many well-known experts as in the two huge volumes of the well-known Handbook of of Oriental Studies. - Claudia von Collani, in: Bibliographia Missionaria, LXXXIV, 2010

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John Lagerwey, Ph.D. Harvard University (1975), is Professor of the History of Daoism and Chinese religions at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris-Sorbonne). His primary publications concern the history of Daoist ritual and the ethnography of local society in southeastern China. Marc Kalinowski, Ph.D. University of Paris (1979), is Professor of Chinese thought and civilization at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris-Sorbonne). He publishes extensively on the history of divination and cosmology in ancient China, including Cosmologie et divination dans la Chine ancienne (Paris 1991), and Divination et societe dans la Chine medievale (Paris, 2003).

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