Taoist Ritual and Popular Cults of Southeast China
：Taoist Ritual and Popular Cults of Southeast China
( Princeton Legacy Library )
Publication subTitle ：Taoist Ritual and Popular Cults of Southeast China
Publication series ：Princeton Legacy Library
Author： Dean Kenneth;;;
Publisher： Princeton University Press
Publication year： 2014
E-ISBN: 9781400863402
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691044736
Subject： B9 Religion;B95 道教
Keyword： 宗教
Language： ENG
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Description
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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