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People and the Dao
New Studies in Chinese Religions in Honour of Daniel L. Overmyer
Contents
PHILIP CLART: Introduction
RANDALL L. NADEAU: A Critical Review of Daniel L. Overmyer’s Contribution to the Study of Chinese Religions.
I. Popular Sects and Religious Movements
HUBERT SEIWERT: The Transformation of Popular Religious Movements of the Ming and Qing Dynasties: A Rational Choice Interpretation
SHIN-YI CHAO: The Precious Volume of Bodhisattva Zhenwu Attaining the Way. A Case Study of the Worship of Zhenwu (Perfected Warrior) in Ming-Qing Sectarian Groups
CHRISTIAN JOCHIM: Popular Lay Sects and Confucianism: A Study Based on the Way of Unity in Postwar Taiwan
SOO KHIN WAH: The Recent Development of the Yiguan Dao Fayi Chongde Sub-Branch in Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand
PHILIP CLART: Merit beyond Measure. Notes on the Moral (and Real) Economy of Religious Publishing in Taiwan
JEAN DEBERNARDI: "Ascend to Heaven and Stand on a Cloud." Daoist Teaching and Practice at Penang’s Taishang Laojun Temple.
II. Historical and Ethnographic Studies of Chinese Popular Religion
JOHN LAGERWEY: The History and Sociology of Religion in Changting County, Fujian
KENNETH DEAN: The Growth of Local Control over Cultural and Environmental Resources in Ming and Qing Coastal Fujian
PAUL R. KATZ: Religion, Recruiting and Resistance in Colonial Taiwan: A Case Study of the Xilai An Incident, 1915
WANG CHIEN-CH’UAN. Transl. PHILIP CLART: The White Dragon Hermitage and the Spread of the Eight Generals Procession Troupe in Taiwan
TUEN WAI MARY YEUNG: Rituals and Beliefs of Female Performers in Cantonese Opera
JORDAN PAPER: The Role of Possession Trance in Chinese Culture and Religion: A Comparative Overview from the Neolithic to the Present.
III. The Religious Life of Clerics, Literati, and Emperors
JUDITH BOLTZ: On the Legacy of Zigu and a Manual on Spirit-writing in Her Name
STEPHEN ESKILDSEN: Death, Immortality, and Spirit Liberation in Northern Song Daoism. The Hagiographical Accounts of Zhao Daoyi
ROBERTO K. ONG: Chen Shiyuan and Chinese Dream Theory
BAREND J. TER HAAR: Yongzheng and His Buddhist Abbots.
