Research Catalog

Title

Religion and ritual in Chinese society / contributors, Emily M. Ahern ... [et al.] ; edited by Arthur P. Wolf. --

Publication

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1974.

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Additional Authors

• Ahern, Emily M.
• Wolf, Arthur P.
• Martin, Emily
• Joint Committee on Contemporary China. Subcommittee on Research on Chinese Society

Description

xii, 377 p.; 24 cm. --

Series Statement

Studies in Chinese society

Uniform Title

Studies in Chinese society

Subject

China > Religion > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Consists chiefly of papers presented at a conference sponsored by the Subcommittee on Research on Chinese Society of the Joint Committee on Contemporary China and held at the Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, Calif., Oct. 11-15, 1971.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [351]-358.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

On the sociological study of Chinese religion / Maurice Freedman -- Religion and ritual in Lukang / Donald R. Deglopper -- Religious organization in the history of a Chinese town / Wang Shih-Ch'ing -- Village alliance temples in Hong Kong / John A. Brim -- Domestic and communal worship in Taiwan / Stephan Feuchtwang -- Gods, ghosts, and ancestors / Arthur P. Wolf -- Taiwanese architecture and the supernatural / Wang Sung-Hsing -- When a ghost becomes a god / C. Stevan Harrell -- Cantonese shamanism / Jack M. Potter -- Cosmic antagonisms: a mother-child syndrome / Marjorie Topley -- Ancestor worship and burial practices / H.G.H. Nelson -- Affines and the rituals of kinship ./ Emily M. Ahern -- The written memorial in Taoist ceremonies / Kristofer M. Schipper -- Orthodoxy and heterodoxy in Taoist ritual / Michael Saso -- Afterword / Robert J. Smith.

ISBN

0804708584 :

LCCN

^^^73089863^

OCLC

1160236

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library