Literature and Religion: A Dialogue Between China and the West

How does one culture read another? This book is a series of conversations between a scholar from China and a scholar from the West each reading texts from the others culture. One of the key issues is the nature of religion and what we understand by that term in a world in which ancient religious and customs seem to be dying or under threat. Does literature and religion offer the possibility of mutual understanding--or merely illustrate our differences? These conversations between scholars are also between friends. And that too is important.