Miraculous Response
Subtitle: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: October 28, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780804751605
Subjects: Oriental religions; Social & cultural anthropology; Social conditions; Religion - World Religions; China; Social Science; Sociology; Religion and culture; Anthropology - General; Asia - General; Eastern - General; Religion / Eastern; Anthropology - Cultural; Religion; Shaanxi Sheng; Shaanxi Sheng (China)
First sentence: The reform era (from the early 1980s onward) of the People's Republic of China has witnessed a massive reemergence of ostensibly traditional Chinese folk beliefs and practices.