Chau, Adam Yuet.

Miraculous response doing popular religion in contemporary China / [electronic resource] : Adam Yuet Chau. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006. - xiv, 317 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

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

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.


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1429415967 (electronic bk.) 9781429415965 (electronic bk.)


Religion and culture--China--Shaanxi Sheng.
Religion et culture--Chine--Shaanxi.


Shaanxi Sheng (China)--Religion.
Shaanxi Sheng (China)--Social conditions.
Shaanxi (Chine)--Religion.
Shaanxi (Chine)--Conditions sociales.


Electronic books.

BL1945.S52 / C43 2006eb

299.5/1/095143