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Ritual Alliances of the Putian Plain. Volume One: Historical Introduction to the Return of the Gods

Ritual Alliances of the Putian Plain. Volume One: Historical Introduction to the Return of the Gods

Hardcover

Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4 China, Ritual Allian, Book 23

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ISBN10: 9004176020
ISBN13: 9789004176027
Publisher: Brill
Published: Dec 7 2009
Pages: 440
Weight: 1.88
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.45
Language: English
Making ingenious use of a wide variety of sources, and old as well as modern technical resources, Kenneth Dean and Zheng Zhenman here set a new standard for an histoire totale for a coherently well-defined cultural region in China. At the same time it deals in-depth with the ongoing negotiation of modernity in Chinese village rituals.
Over the past thirty years, local popular religion has been revived and re-invented in the villages of the irrigated alluvial plain of Putian, Fujian, China. Volume 1 provides a historical introduction to the formation of 153 regional ritual alliances made up of 724 villages. Early popular cults, Ming lineages, Qing multi-village alliances, late Qing spirit-medium associations, 20th century state attacks on local religion, and the role of Overseas Chinese and local communities in rebuilding the temple networks are discussed. Volume 2 surveys the current population, lineages, temples, gods, and annual rituals of these villages. Maps of each ritual alliance, the distribution of major cults and lineages, are included.

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