李向平，男，祖籍湖南邵东。历史学博士，华东师范大学社会发展学院教授，博士生导师；华东师范大学宗教与社会研究中心主任。中国宗教学会学会理事，上海市宗教学会副会长。曾往日本横滨市立大学、大正大学、大阪大学、美国波士顿大学、香港中文大学从事访问研究。主要研究领域：宗教社会学、当代宗教与中国宗教史等。主要著作有：《祖宗的神灵》、《王权与神权》、《救世与救心—中国近代佛教复兴思潮研究》、《死亡与超越》、《智慧与慈悲》、《文化正当性的冲突》、《中国当代宗教的社会学诠释》、《信仰、革命与权力秩序—中国宗教社会学研究》、《佛教信仰与社会变迁》、《信仰但不认同—当代中国信仰的社会学分析》等。近年来在海内外发表有关当代中国宗教、宗教社会学方面的论文近百篇。《信仰、革命与权力秩序—中国宗教社会学研究》，获上海市第九届哲学社会科学优秀成果奖一等奖，国家教育部2009年高等学校科学研究优秀成果（人文社会科学）二等奖；《中国当代宗教的社会学诠释》，获上海市第七届邓小平理论研究和宣传优秀成果奖二等奖。
Professor
Li Xiangping: Ph.D. in history. Professor Li is the director of the Chinese Religion Society, and a vice-chairman of Shanghai Religion Society. He has been a visiting scholar at many other universities, including Yokohama City University, Taisho University, Osaka University, Boston University and The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Main Research Areas: religious sociology, contemporary religion and history of Chinese religion.
Main Works: Ancestral Gods, Kinship and Theocracy; Salvation and Jiu Xin—Research on Revival of Buddhism Thoughts in Modern China; Death and the Life Beyond; Wisdom and Compassion; Conflict of Cultural Legitimacy; Sociological Interpretation of Contemporary Chinese Religion; Belief, Revolution and Power Order—Chinese Religious Sociology Studies; Buddhist Faith and Social Change; Faith without Consensus — A Sociological Analysis of Contemporary Chinese Beliefs. Some one hundred papers on Contemporary Chinese Religion and Religious Sociology at home and abroad published in recent years. Belief, Revolution and Power Order—Chinese Religious Sociology Studies won the first prize in the Outstanding Achievement Awards of the Ninth Shanghai Philosophy and Social Science Conference, and the second prize in the Outstanding Achievement Awards for Scientific Research in Universities and Colleges of Ministry of Education in 2009 (Humanities and Social Sciences); Sociological interpretation of Contemporary Chinese Religion won the second prize in the Outstanding Achievement Awards in the seventh Shanghai Research and Propagandize Deng Xiaopeng Theory Conference.
