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Chau, Adam Yuet.

Miraculous response : doing popular religion in contemporary China / Adam Yuet Chau. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006. - xiv, 317 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-292) and index.

Shaanbei history, society, and culture -- Shaanbei popular religious landscape -- Beliefs and practices : Shaanbei people's religiosity and religious habitus -- Legends and histories : Heilongdawang and the Heilongdawang temple -- Provisioning magical efficacy and divine benevolence -- Modes of social organization and folk event productions -- Red-hot sociality -- Temple boss and local elite : the story of Lao Wang -- Longwanggou and agrarian political culture -- The local state and the politics of legitimation.

ISBN: 0804751609 9780804751605 9780804761000 (pbk.) 0804761000 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2005009492

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Religion and culture--China--Shaanxi Sheng.
Religion and culture--China--Shaanxi Sheng.
Religion et culture--Chine--Shaanxi.
Religion and culture--China--Shaanxi Sheng.
Religion et culture--Chine.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Shaanxi Sheng (China)--Religion.
Shaanxi Sheng (China)--Social conditions.
Shaanxi Sheng (China)--Religion.
Shaanxi (Chine)--Religion.
Shaanxi (Chine)--Conditions sociales.
Shaanxi Sheng (China)--Religion.
Chine--Religion.
Chine--Conditions sociales.

LC Class. No.: BL1945.S52 / C43 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 299.5/1/095143