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1 online resource (313 pages) |
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Cover; Contents; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Maps and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Terms used in the text; 1 A well-kept secret; 1.1 Religious practice; 1.2 Daoists of north China; 1.3 Rituals, jiao, and Quanzhen/Zhengyi; 1.4 Fieldwork on 'religious music'; 1.5 Other sources; 1.6 Sects; 1.7 Time-frame; Part One Singing from a different hymn-sheet: north and central Shanxi; 2 North Shanxi; 3 North-central Shanxi; Part Two Temple-lay connections: south Shanxi and south Hebei, Shaanxi and Gansu; 4 South Shanxi and south Hebei; 5 Shaanxi; 6 Gansu |
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Part Three Just can't get the staff: the central Hebei plainIntroduction to Part Three; 7 Daxing: the Liangshanpo transmission; 8 Bazhou and Jinghai; 9 The western area: Houshan and the Houtu cult; Conclusion; 10 It's Daoism, but not as we know it; Appendices; 1 Ritual practice in Beijing and Tianjin cities; 2 Some ritual songs in central Hebei; 3 Precious scrolls of central Hebei; 4 Some sites for living folk ritual activity in Shanxi; Bibliography; Glossary-Index |
| Summary |
Largely unstudied by scholars of religion, folk Daoist ritual in north China has been a constant theme of Chinese music scholars. Stephen Jones places lay Daoists within the wider context of folk religious practices - including those of lay Buddhists, sectarians, and spirit mediums. Jones describes ritual sequences within funerals and temple fairs, offering details on occupational hereditary lay Daoists, temple-dwelling priests, and even amateur ritual groups. Stressing performance, Jones observes the changing ritual scene in this poor countryside, both since the 1980s and through all the trib |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Taoism -- China -- Shanxi Sheng Region -- Rituals
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Religion
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Taoism -- Rituals
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| SUBJECT |
Shanxi Sheng Region (China) -- Religion
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781409406167 |
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1409406164 |
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1282892258 |
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9781282892255 |
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