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Chinese Popular Religion in Text and Acts
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Table of contents
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction Text, Acts, and Traditionalization: Performing Chinese Popular Religion
- Section One: Texts And Acts
- 1. Confluence of Fears: The 1923 Doomsday Hysteria in China
- 2. Temple Inscriptions as “Text Acts”
- Section Two: Scriptures and Rituals
- 3. Shuilu Rites and the Baodingshan Rock Carvings of Dazu
- 4. The Worship of the Ten Kings of Purgatory during the Ming-Qing Period
- 5. Feasting with the Great-grandmother: The Tea Banquet Ritual Programs and the Worship of the Mother of Wutong
- 6. Knowledge and Ritual : The Dual Nature of the Scripture Illustrating the Holiness of Emperor Guan (Guandi mingsheng jing)
- Section Three: Saints’ Legends and Gods’ Lore
- 7. Scorched Head: Daoist Exorcists and Their Divine Generals in Jiangnan Lore
- 8. Assimilation by Names: A Mechanism of Pantheon Development in Local Religion
- Section Four: Temple Festivals and Pilgrimages
- 9. Our Lady on the Mountain: The Cult of a Daoist Immortal in Village China
- 10. Stone Inscriptions on Mt. Tai and Contemporary Folk Pilgrimage: A Speculation on “Yinbei”
- Index