China is a unified multinational and multi-reli-gion country. In the endless flow of history, thetraditional religious culture of its minority nationali-ties occupies a position that Cannot be neglected inany study of the nation's religious history, with itsethnic characteristics and pluralist pattern.

Preface

Chapter Ⅰ Original Religions and Folk Religions of Chinese Minorities

 Ⅰ.Origin of Primitive Religious Beliefs

 Ⅱ.Original Religions of Chinese Ethnic Minorities

 Ⅲ.Folk Religion of Chinese Minorities

Chapter Ⅱ Taoist Belief among Chinese Minorities

 Ⅰ.Taoism of the Yao Ethnic Group

 Ⅱ.The Influence of Taoism on Other Ethnic Minorities

Chapter Ⅲ Buddhist Belief Among Chinese Minorltles

 Ⅰ.Ethnic Minorities and Tibetan Buddhism

 Ⅱ.Ethnic Minorities and Southern Buddhism

 Ⅲ.Ethnic Minorities and Inland Buddhism

Chapter Ⅳ Chinese Minorities and Islamic Belief

 Ⅰ.Hui Ethnic Group and Islam

 Ⅱ.Uygur Ethnic Group and Islam

 Ⅲ.Other Ethnic Groups Belief in Islam

Chapter Ⅴ Christian Belief of Chinese Minorities

 Ⅰ.Ethnic Minorities and Catholicism

 Ⅱ.Ethnic Minorities and Orthodox Church

 Ⅲ.Ethnic Minorities and Protestantism

Chapter Ⅵ "Historical Religions" of Chinese Minorities

 Ⅰ.Nestorianism

 Ⅱ.Magianism

 Ⅲ.Manichaeism