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9019s180v6k	Megan C. Rogers	Faiths and Fortune: Religion and the Professional Middle Class in Urban China	1904		.txt	text/plain	351	9	21	My research examines how one portion of the Chinese population—the growing professional middle class—is engaging with religious practices and asks how they are using these practices to make sense of their success and their place in both their country and global society. Drawing on critiques of the standard sociological theories and ways of conceptualizing and measuring of religion, this project uses the lens of religious practice, based on the theoretical work of Martin Riesebrodt (2010) and Adam Yuet Chau (2011a), to demonstrate how educated professionals' social position orients them towards religion in a distinctly rationalized and individualistic way that transcends established religious lines.	cache/9019s180v6k.txt	txt/9019s180v6k.txt