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Acknowledgments=vii
I. Concepts and Theories=1
1. World Religions, Elites, and Popular Religion=3
2. Religious Action:A Weberian Model=20
3. Elites and Masses:Max Weber, Weberian Scholars, and Marxist Analysis=37
II. Religious Action in the World Religions=67
4. China:State Religion, Elites, and Popular Religion in a Syncretistic Milieu=70
5. India:Brahmans, Renouncers, and Popular Hinduism=102
6. Nirvana and Spirits:Buddhism and Animism in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia=131
7. Hierocracy and Popular Religion:Catholicism in "Traditional" Europe=166
8. Elite Scholars and Popular Saints:A Brief Excursus on Islam and Judaism=202
9. Protestants, Catholics, and the Reform of Popular Religion=211
10. Comparisons=242
Notes=263
Bibliography=309
Index=337
About the Author=344