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The Lady of Linshui : a Chinese female cult / Brigitte Baptandier ; translated by Kristin Ingrid Fryklund.

Title
The Lady of Linshui : a Chinese female cult / Brigitte Baptandier ; translated by Kristin Ingrid Fryklund.
Author
Baptandier, Brigitte
Publication
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2008.

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Description
xiii, 374 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Summary
"This anthropological study examines the cult of the Chinese goddess Chen Jinggu, divine protector of women and children."--Jacket.
Series Statement
Asian religions & cultures
Uniform Title
Dame-du-bord-de-l'eau. English
Alternative Title
Dame-du-bord-de-l'eau.
Subject
  • Chen Jinggu (Goddess)
  • Goddesses > China
  • Goddesses, Chinese
  • Women and religion > China
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-347) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. Sexual Categories -- 2. The Goddess of Pregnancy Has an Abortion and Returns to Mt. Lu -- 3. The Bridge of a Hundred Flowers -- 4. Cinnabar Cloud Monkey -- 5. The Thirty-six Pojie -- 6. The God of the Soil and the Lady of the Birth Register -- 7. Women and the Temple: The "Celestial Flower" -- 8. Children and the Temple: The Passes (guan) -- 9. Rituals of the Flowers and Passes -- 10. Chen Jinggu's Medium.
ISBN
9780804746663 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2007049941