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Taoist Ritual and Popular Cults of Southeast China
Kenneth Dean
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Description for Taoist Ritual and Popular Cults of Southeast China
Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 306 pages, 21 halftones, 2 line illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: HRKN5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 599.
Most commentators imagine contemporary China to be monolithic, atheistic, and materialist, and wholly divorced from its earlier customs, but Kenneth Dean combines evidence from historical texts and extensive fieldwork to reveal an entirely different picture. Since 1979, when the Chinese government relaxed some of its most stringent controls on religion, villagers in the isolated areas of Southeast China have maintained an "underground" effort to restore traditional rituals and local cults. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. ... Read more
Most commentators imagine contemporary China to be monolithic, atheistic, and materialist, and wholly divorced from its earlier customs, but Kenneth Dean combines evidence from historical texts and extensive fieldwork to reveal an entirely different picture. Since 1979, when the Chinese government relaxed some of its most stringent controls on religion, villagers in the isolated areas of Southeast China have maintained an "underground" effort to restore traditional rituals and local cults. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
306
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Number of Pages
306
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691630885
SKU
V9780691630885
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Reviews for Taoist Ritual and Popular Cults of Southeast China
"This excellent study, among its other virtues, makes one outstanding contribution to religious studies: it provides ethnographic reporting of local religious practices in the People's Republic of China (PRC)... Probably the most sophisticated study of contemporary popular Chinese religion that has yet appeared."
Alan Hunter, Sociology of Religion "This excellent ... book breaks new ground in several interrelated areas: its combination ... Read more
Alan Hunter, Sociology of Religion "This excellent ... book breaks new ground in several interrelated areas: its combination ... Read more