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Taoist Ritual and Popular Cults of Southeast China
Abstract
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. 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 editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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“Dean (1995:50-53) considers Daoist liturgy 'the alchemy of Chinese society.'”
From Religion and Society: A Summary of French Studies on Chinese Religion (2014) · cites this paper as Dean (1995:50-53)
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“The Canadian scholar Kenneth Dean, a student of Schipper, furthers this concept in his Taoist Ritual and Popular Cults of Southeast China (1995), suggesting that Daoism provides a liturgical framework that allows various social groups to determine their places in communal rites.”
From Religion and Society: A Summary of French Studies on Chinese Religion (2014) · cites this paper as Dean (1995)
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“Ethnographies also show that the five spirit-soldier camps appeared not only in pre-modern China (Wang 1995), but also in parts of contemporary southern China, where they still exist (Dean 1993).”
From Conceptualizing Gods through Statues: A Study of Personification and Localization in Taiwan (2008) · cites this paper as Dean 1993
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- Authors
- Dean, K.
- Corresponding author
- Dean, Kenneth
- Venue
- Princeton University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 1995-12-31
- OpenAlex
- W4231046372
- Cited by
- 75
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 17 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 5.84
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Princeton University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Chinese history and philosophy
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Study and Philosophy of Religion
- Keywords
- Taoist ritual, folk religion, southeastern China, rural China, traditional customs
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