Publication subTitle :Aspects of Chinese Sectarianism in Taiwan
Publication series :Princeton Legacy Library
Author: Jordan David K.;Overmyer Daniel L.;;
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication year: 2014
E-ISBN: 9781400854202
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691073040
Subject: B9 Religion;B92 宗教理论与概况;C0 Social Science Theory and Methodology
Keyword: 宗教,社会科学理论与方法论
Language: ENG
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Description
Anthropologist David Jordan and Daniel Overmyer, a historian of religions, present a joint analysis of the most important group of sectarian religious societies in contemporary Taiwan: those that engage in automatic writing seances, or worship by means of the phoenix" writing implement.
Originally published in 1986.
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