- Chen, Nancy N. (2003). "Healing sects and anti-cult campaigns." China Quarterly 174: 505-521
- Duara, Prasenjit. "Knowledge and Power in the Discourse of Modernity - the Campaigns against Popular Religion in Early 20th-Century China." Journal of Asian Studies 50, no. 1 (Feb 1991): 67-83
- Gladney, Dru C. "Islam and Modernity in China: Secularization or Separatism." In Chinese Religiosities: Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation, edited by Mayfair Mei-hui Yang. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2008
- Goossaert, Vincent. "The Concept of Religion in China and the West." Diogenes 52, no. 1 (2005): 13-20
- Goossaert, Vincent, and David A. Palmer. The Religious Question in Modern China. Chicago ; London: University of Chicago Press, 2011. Chapters 1, 2, and 6 (rest of chapters are recommended reading)
- Madsen, Richard. "Back to the Future: Pre-modern Religious Policy in Post-Secular China."
- McCarthy, S. K. (2013). "Serving Society, Repurposing the State: Religious Charity and Resistance in China." The China Journal 70 (July 2013): 48-72
- Penny, Benjamin. "Animal Spirits, Karmic Retribution, Falungong, and the State In " In Chinese Religiosities: Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation, edited by Mayfair Mei-hui Yang, 135-154. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2008
- Wellens, Koen. (2009). "Negotiable rights? China's ethnic minorities and the right to freedom of religion." International Journal on Minority and Group Rights 16(3): 433-454
- Wellens, Koen: ”Under partistatens vinger: tro- og religionsfrihet i Kina” (tekst blir lagt ut på fronter)
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Wellens, Koen: “Failed Secularization, New Nationalism, and Governmentality: The Rise of Buddhism in Post-Mao China.” In Buddhist Modernities: Re-Inventing Tradition in the Globalizing Modern World, edited by Hanna Havnevik, Ute Hüsken,Mark Teeuwen, Vladimir Tikhonov and Koen Wellens. New York and London: Routledge, in print 2017. (tekst blir lagt ut på fronter)
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Wellens, Koen. (2016). Religious Freedom in Colonial Perspective: Ebb and Flow of Chinese Religious Policies in Xinjiang and Tibet (draft, tekst blir lagt ut på fronter)
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Yang, Fenggang. "The Red, Black, and Gray Markets of Religion in China." The Sociological Quarterly 47 (2006 ): 93-122
- Yang, Fenggang. Religion in China: Survival & Revival under Communist Rule. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Chapter 2.
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