"[Chen's way of looking] at the debate over Confucian religiousness provides a way toward understanding the existential condition of the Chinese people in modern times and the obsession of Chinese intellectuals with the conundrum of tradition and modernity."
Christian Jochim, San Jose State University, Review of Religion and Chinese Society 2.2 (2015)

"The author can not only expose the epistemological significance of defining Confucian within the category of religion, but also he shows that the controversy over the religious character of Confucianism can be dissociated from the nationalistic and “salvific” attempts of the apparently Confucian essence and nature of Chinese culture (pp. 137-175). [...] Yong Chen proposes in his book a comprehensive and contextual approach to solving the problem of whether Confucianism is a religion. This should make sinologists and scholars in religious studies, and graduate students in the fields of Confucian studies and Chinese religions, and anyone interested in the religiosity of Confucianism and its contemporary relevance delve into this book and search for his or her answer to this question."
Zbigniew Wesołowski, Monumenta Serica 62 (2014)