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Dream trippers : global Daoism and the predicament of modern spirituality / David A. Palmer and Elijah Siegler.

LIBRA BL1923 .P35 2017
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Palmer, David A., 1969- author.
Siegler, Elijah, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Taoism.
Globalization--Religious aspects--Taoism.
Globalization.
Spirituality--Taoism.
Spirituality.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages--China--Hua Mountain (Shaanxi Sheng).
Pilgrims and pilgrimages.
Taoists.
China--Hua Mountain (Shaanxi Sheng).
Taoists--United States.
Taoists--China.
Taoism--United States.
United States.
China.
Physical Description:
ix, 326 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Summary:
Anthropologists David A. Palmer and Elijah Siegler explore the globalization of Daoism: the interactions between international spiritual tourists, traditional Chinese monks, and American scholar-practitioners at the sacred Daoist mountain of Huashan, China. Palmer and Siegler show how the spiritual and religious histories of China and the West intersect, collide, and interpenetrate, revealing the paradoxes and dilemmas of the search for spiritual authenticity in a globalized world.--Provided by publisher.
Contents:
The subject
The mountain
The trippers
The cloud wanderers
The encounters
The scholar-practitioners
The predicament
Epilogue: the cosmic orgasms.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780226481760
022648176X
9780226484846
022648484X
OCLC:
973292110

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