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Subject(s)

• Religion and culture—Taiwan [Browse]
• Gods, Chinese—Taiwan [Browse]
• Idols and images—Taiwan [Browse]
• Idols and images—Worship [Browse]
• Tang-ki worship—Taiwan [Browse]
• Taiwan—Religious life and customs [Browse]

Series

• Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 97. [More in this series]
• Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 97 [More in this series]

Summary note

Materializing Magic Power paints a broad picture of the dynamics of popular religion in Taiwan. The first book to explore contemporary Chinese popular religion from its cultural, social, and material perspectives, it analyzes these aspects of religious practice in a unified framework and traces their transformation as adherents move from villages to cities. In this groundbreaking study, Wei-Ping Lin offers a fresh perspective on the divine power of Chinese dei.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-196) and index.

Source of description

Print version record.

Contents

• Popular religion in villages. God statues
• Spirit mediums
• Dialogues with the past and the present
• Popular religion in cities. Thicker than blood
• Magic power reconfigured.

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ISBN

• 9781684170814 ((electronic bk.))
• 1684170818 ((electronic bk.))

OCLC

999606458

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