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.
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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 Affairs )
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 Affairs )
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THE THREE CULTS discussed in this book are located in the Minnan area of Southeast Fujian. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
guangze zunwang, baosheng dadi, temple gazetteers, divinatory poems, jiao rituals, cult networks, affiliated temples, divination blocks, lower altar, liturgical framework, surname group, sacred spell, ritual masters, district gazetteer, temple committee, liturgical manuscripts, ritual methods, feudal superstition, requiem services, district magistrate, regional cults Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Yang Jun, Reverent Lord, Phoenix Mountain, Patriarch of the Clear Stream, Heavenly Venerable, Taoist Canon, District Magistrate, Spring Official, Cultural Revolution, Great Emperor, Merciful Salvation, Qingshui Zushi, Three Realms, Wuyi Mountains, Celestial Master, Dai Fengyi, Elder Yang, Min Shu, Yang Zhi, New Year, Divine Doctor, Huang Jiading, Protector of Peace, Three Pure Ones, Yan Shilu New!
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THE THREE CULTS discussed in this book are located in the Minnan area of Southeast Fujian. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
guangze zunwang, baosheng dadi, temple gazetteers, divinatory poems, jiao rituals, cult networks, affiliated temples, divination blocks, lower altar, liturgical framework, surname group, sacred spell, ritual masters, district gazetteer, temple committee, liturgical manuscripts, ritual methods, feudal superstition, requiem services, district magistrate, regional cults Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Yang Jun, Reverent Lord, Phoenix Mountain, Patriarch of the Clear Stream, Heavenly Venerable, Taoist Canon, District Magistrate, Spring Official, Cultural Revolution, Great Emperor, Merciful Salvation, Qingshui Zushi, Three Realms, Wuyi Mountains, Celestial Master, Dai Fengyi, Elder Yang, Min Shu, Yang Zhi, New Year, Divine Doctor, Huang Jiading, Protector of Peace, Three Pure Ones, Yan Shilu New!
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- Religion and Ritual in Chinese Society by Arthur P. Wolf on 7 pages
- Popular Culture in Late Imperial China by David Johnson on 5 pages
- The City in Late Imperial China (Reith Lectures) by G. William Skinner on 4 pages
- Facets of Taoism: Essays in Chinese Religion by Holmes Welch on 4 pages
- The Anthropology of Taiwanese Society by Ahern in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Southern Fujian: Reproduction of Traditions in Post-Mao China by Tan Chee-beng in Front Matter, page 30, and page 63
- Religion and the Formation of Taiwanese Identities by Paul Katz on page 174, page 248, and page 284
- Culture and Customs of Taiwan by Gary Marvin Davison on page 50, and Back Matter
- Trajectories: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Culture and Communication in Asia) by Kuan-Hsing Chen in Front Matter, and page 184
- Alternate Civilities: Democracy And Culture In China And Taiwan by Robert Paul Weller on page 60, and Back Matter
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