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Theories of religion and democracy -- Research methodology -- Changing political and religious environment -- Buddhism -- General description -- Buddha light mountain -- Buddhist Compassion Relief Cji Foundation -- Dharma-drum mountain -- Zhongtai Can Monastery -- Other Buddhists -- Christianity -- General description -- Presbyterians -- Baptists -- Local churches -- Other denominations -- Daoism and folk religions -- Definition -- Daoism -- Yiguandao -- Mazu belief -- Statistical analysis -- Taiwans religious profile -- Religion and party preference -- Religion and democratic values -- Religion and democratic behavior -- Comparison of taiwanese believers -- Comparing Taiwanese and Korean believers -- Conclusion -- Summary and comparison -- Methodological, theoretical and practical implications

Ugaritic Economic Tablets: Text, Translation and Notes provides new translations of more than 800 Late Bronze Age economic texts written in the alphabetic script of the Syrian city of Ugarit. Each translation is accompanied by transliteration as well as commentary, textual notes and up-to-date bibliography. The texts are grouped according to findspot and indexed by both publication numbers and excavation numbers allowing for easy reference. An extended introduction discusses some of the grammatical and historical problems with interpreting these texts. Produced as a companion volume to McGeough's Exchange Relationships at Ugarit and edited by Mark S. Smith, this volume will be of use to Ugaritic specialists, Near Eastern studies and Biblical scholars, historians of ancient economics, and students new to Ugaritic studies or economic history/anthropology