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The Flying Phoenix [electronic resource] : Aspects of Chinese Sectarianism in Taiwan.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Princeton Legacy LibraryPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (355 p.)ISBN:
  • 9781400854202 (electronic bk.)
  • 1400854202 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Flying Phoenix : Aspects of Chinese Sectarianism in TaiwanDDC classification:
  • 299.51 19
LOC classification:
  • BL1975
Online resources: Summary: 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. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these importan.
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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. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these importan.

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