Miraculous response : doing popular religion in contemporary China / Adam Yuet Chau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chau, Adam Yuet.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and culture--China--Shaanxi Sheng.

Religion and culture.

Shaanxi Sheng (China)--Religion.

Shaanxi Sheng (China).

Shaanxi Sheng (China)--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book-length ethnography of the revival of a popular religious temple in contemporary rural China examines the organizational and cultural logics that inform the staging of popular religious activities. It also explores the politics of the religious revival, detailing the relationships of village-level local activists and local state agents wtih temple associations and temple bosses. Shedding light on shifting state-society relationships in the reform era, this book is of interest to scholars and students in Asian Studies, the social sciences, and religious and ritual studies.

Contents:

Shaanbei history, society, and culture

Shaanbei popular religious landscape

Beliefs and practices : Shaanbei people's religiosity and religious habitus

Legends and histories : Heilongdawang and the Heilongdawang temple

Provisioning magical efficacy and divine benevolence

Modes of social organization and folk event productions

Red-hot sociality

Temple boss and local elite : the story of Lao Wang

Longwanggou and agrarian political culture

The local state and the politics of legitimation.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-292) and index.

ISBN:

9780804767651

0804767653

9781429415965

1429415967

OCLC:

191928110