Taoist Ritual and Popular Cults of Southeast China
Will be published approx. on 19. April 2016
Book
Hardback
306 pages
978-0-691-63088-5 (ISBN)
Description
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. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Reviews / Votes
"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 of fieldwork with the collection and study of texts and inscriptions, the inclusive, community-wide base of local religious practices, the role of Daoist priests in a community religion, detailed case studies of the development of popular deities, and the revival of religious festivals in China in the mid-1980s."--Daniel L. Overmyer, Pacific Affairs "Dean has made a major contribution to our understanding of Chinese religion... As an expert tour-guide, eyewitness reporter, archivist, historical interpreter, textual translator, and semiologist, he constructs a valuable multifaceted view of some old and continuously developing religious phenomena."--Scott Davis, The Australian Journal of Chinese AffairsMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New Jersey
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Trade binding
Illustrations
1 Maps
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
625 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-691-63088-5 (9780691630885)
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Kenneth Dean
Taoist Ritual and Popular Cults of Southeast China
E-Book
07/2014
1st Edition
Princeton University Press
€53.99
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Person
Kenneth Dean
Content
*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, pg. ix*LIST OF TABLES AND CHARTS, pg. xi*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xiii*INTRODUCTION, pg. 1*ONE. TAOISM IN FUJIAN, pg. 21*TWO. THE GREAT EMPEROR WHO PROTECTS LIFE, pg. 61*THREE. THE PATRIARCH OF THE CLEAR STREAM, pg. 99*FOUR. THE REVERENT LORD OF BROAD COMPASSION, pg. 131*CONCLUSION, pg. 173*APPENDIX I. FOUR SONG TITLES OF INVESTITURE FOR THE PATRIARCH OF THE CLEAR STREAM, pg. 189*APPENDIX II. THE DOSSIER OF THE REVERENT LORD OF BROAD COMPASSION, pg. 201*APPENDIX III. CHINESE TEXT OF SCRIPTURES, pg. 205*NOTES, pg. 211*GLOSSARY, pg. 239*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 251*INDEX, pg. 275