Asian ritual systems
Subtitle: syncretisms and ruptures
By: [edited] by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern.
Contributors: Stewart, Pamela J.; Strathern, Andrew.
Series: Ritual studies monograph series; Carolina Academic Press ritual studies monographs.
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: Rites and ceremonies -- Asia.; Ritual -- Asia.; Asia -- Social life and customs.; Asia -- Religion life and customs.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Ritual practices, 'cultural revival' movements, and historical change / Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern; title: Huizong's ritual and musical insignia / Joseph S.C. Lam; title: Magic tricks, midnight grave outings, and transforming trees : performance and agency in Taiwanese religion / Marc L. Moskowitz; title: God's villages : Christian communities in late-nineteenth-century south China / Joseph Tse-Hei Lee; title: The cultural negotiation in the rituals of the 1997 Hong Kong reunion with China / Yu Siu Wah; title: The unbowed foreigner : postural identities of Buddhists and Christians in China / Eric Reinders; title: Festivals and the recreation of identity in south China : a case study of processions and expulsion rites in Pucheng, Zhejiang / Paul R. Katz; title: The virgin and the Chinese state : the cult of Wang Yulan and the politics of local identity on Jinmen (Quemoy) / Michael Szonyi; title: Generals, pigs, and immortals : views and uses of history in Chinese morality books / Philip Clart; title: A generation of power through ritual protection and transformation of identity in Indian Tantric Buddhism / Vesna A. Wallace.