Taoist Ritual and Popular Cults of Southeast China (Princeton Legacy Library) - Hardcover

Dean, Kenneth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691074178 ISBN 13: 9780691074177

Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0691074178
• ISBN 13: 9780691074177
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 290
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