Alison Denton Jones is a Fellow in Sociology at Harvard University for\u00a0
2019-2020 while on a book sabbatical. Her research interests include\u00a0
cultural and organizational sociology, religion, social movements, civil\u00a0
society, urban studies, China and East Asia, and research methodology,\u00a0
especially qualitative methods. Jones\u2019 research engages with\u00a0
long-standing questions in sociology regarding the role of religion in a\u00a0
modern society, especially in cities, and with the diffusion and\u00a0
adaptation of Western conceptual and organizational models in other\u00a0
\u201cmodernizing\u201d societies. She primarily focuses on urban religion and\u00a0
organizations in Chinese and North American societies.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Her current book project, “Blood Drives, Bodhisattvas, and Blogs: Doing\u00a0
Buddhism in China\u2019s 21st Century Urban Middle Class,” offers the first\u00a0
picture of an overlooked piece of China’s urban religious landscape: the\u00a0
vast number of white collar urbanites who practice Buddhism. The book\u00a0
shows how cosmopolitan urban Buddhists seek to create authentic and\u00a0
useful Buddhist practices, organizations, and narratives about\u00a0
religion\u2019s place in society, while negotiating pressures for legitimacy\u00a0
with the state, from skeptics of religion among their peers, and the\u00a0
ubiquitous pressures of daily urban life.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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