Ji Zhe is professor of sociology of religions at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Inalco) and director of the Centre d'études interdisciplinaires sur le bouddhisme (CEIB). His research focuses on the revival of Buddhism in the contemporary Chinese world, with an attempt to combine theoretical tools and sociological, anthropological and historical research methods in order to analyse the changing relationship between belief, knowledge and power in China, placing it in the context of modernity and globalisation. He is notably the author of Religion, modernité et temporalité : une sociologie du bouddhisme chan contemporain (2016) and the co-editor of Making Saints in Modern China (with David Ownby and Vincent Goossaert, 2017) and Buddhism after Mao: Negotiations, Continuities, and Reinventions (with Gareth Fisher and André Laliberté, 2019).