| Description |
1 online resource (545 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- A Critical Review of Daniel L. Overmyer's Contribution to the Study of Chinese Religions -- Part I: Popular Sects and Religious Movements -- The Transformation of Popular Religious Movements of the Ming and Qing Dynasties: A Rational Choice Interpretation -- The Precious Volume of Bodhisattva Zhenwu Attaining the Way. A Case Study of the Worship of Zhenwu (perfected Warrior) in Ming-Qing Sectarian Groups |
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Popular Lay Sects and Confucianism: A Study Based on the Way of Unity in Postwar Taiwan -- The Recent Development of the Yiguan Dao Fayi Chongde Sub-Branch in Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand -- Merit beyond Measure. Notes on the Moral (and Real) Economy of Religious Publishing in Taiwan -- Ascend to Heaven and Stand on a Cloud."" Daoist Teaching and Practice at Penang's Taishang Laojun Temple -- Part II: Historical and Ethnographic Studies of Chinese Popular Religion -- The History and Sociology of Religion in Changting County, Fujian |
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The Growth of Local Control over Cultural and Environmental Resources in Ming and Qing Coastal Fujian -- Religion, Recruiting and Resistance in Colonial Taiwan: A Case Study of the Xilai An Incident, 1915 -- The White Dragon Hermitage and the Spread of the Eight Generals Procession Troupe in Taiwan -- Rituals and Beliefs of Female Performers in Cantonese Opera -- The Role of Possession Trance in Chinese Culture and Religion: A Comparative Overview from the Neolithic to the Present -- Part III: The Religious Life of Cleries, Literati, and Emperors |
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On the Legacy of Zigu and a Manual on Spirit-writing in Her Name -- Death, Immortality, and Spirit Liberation in Northern Song Daoism: The Hagiographical Accounts of Zhao Daoyi -- Chen Shiyuan and Chinese Dream Theory -- Yongzheng and His Buddhist Abbots -- On the Contributors -- Glossary -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Crowe, Paul
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| ISBN |
9781000113501 |
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1000113507 |
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