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The people and the Dao : new studies in Chinese religions in honour of Daniel L. Overmyer / edited by Philip Clart and Paul Crowe.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Religious Thought and Lived Religion in China (Conference) (2002 : Vancouver, B.C.)
- Religious Thought and Lived Religion in China: A Conference in Honour of Professor Daniel L. Overmyer on His Retirement (2002 : Vancouver, B.C.)
- Series:
- Monumenta serica monograph series ; 60.
- Monumenta serica monograph series, 0179-261X ; 60
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- China--Religion--Congresses.
- China.
- Taiwan--Religion--Congresses.
- Taiwan.
- Folk religion--China--Congresses.
- Folk religion.
- Taoism--China--Congresses.
- Taoism.
- Buddhism--China--History--Congresses.
- Buddhism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (542 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Sankt Augustin, Germany : Institut Monumenta Serica, 2009.
- Language Note:
- In English with some Chinese.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Philip Clart
- A critical review of Daniel L. Overmyer's contribution to the study of Chinese religions / Randall L. Nadeau
- I. Popular sects and religious movements. The transformation of popular religious movements of the MIng and Qing dynasties : a rational choice interpretation / Hubert Seiwert
- The precious volume of bodhisattva Zhenwu attaining the way : a case study of the worship of Zhenwu (Perfected Warrior) in Ming-Qing sectarian groups / Shin-Yi Chao
- Popular lay sects and Confucianism : a study based on the Way of Unity in postwar Taiwan / Christian Jochim
- The recent development of the Yiguan Dao Fayi Chongde sub-branch in Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand / Soo Khin Wah
- Merit beyond measure : notes on the moral (and real) economy of religious publishing in Taiwan / Philip Clart
- "Ascend to heaven and stand on a cloud" : Daoist teaching and practice at Penang's Taishang Laojun Temple / Jean DeBernardi
- II. Historical and ethnographic studies of Chinese popular religion. The history and sociology of religion in Changting County, Fujian / John Lagerwey
- The growth of local control over cultural and environmental resources in Ming and Qing coastal Fujian / Kenneth Dean
- Religion, recruiting and resistance in colonial Taiwan : a case study of the Xilai An Incident, 1915 / Paul R. Katz
- The White Dragon Hermitage and the spread of the Eight Generals Procession Troupe in Taiwan / Wang Chien-Ch'uan ; transl. Philip Clart
- Rituals and beliefs of female performers in Cantonese opera / Tuen Wai Mary Yeung
- The role of possession trance in Chinese culture and religion : a comparative overview from the neolithic to the present / Jordan Paper
- III. The religious life of clerics, literati, and emperors. On the legacy of Zigu and a manual on spirit-writing in her name / Judith Boltz
- Death, immortality, and spirit liberation in Northern Song Daoism : the hagiographical accounts of Zhao Daoyi / Stephen Eskildsen
- Chen Shiyuan and Chinese dream theory / Roberto K. Ong
- Yongzheng and his Buddhist abbots / Barend J. ter Haar.
- Notes:
- Most papers from 2002 conference held at the University of British Columbia.
- Includes bibliography of works by Daniel leaves Overmyer (pages 32-35).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781003077350 (electronic bk.)
- 1003077358 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 99993029073
- 9783805005579
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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