Product Description: This book is a comprehensive survey of the structure, organization and institutionalization of local community religious traditions in north China villages in the twentieth century. These traditions have their own forms of leaders, deities and beliefs...read more

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Product Description: "Precious volumes," or pao-chüan, were produced by popular sects in the Ming and early Qing dynasties. These scriptures were believed to have been divinely revealed to sect leaders and contain teachings and ritual instructions that provide valuable information about a lively and widespread religious tradition outside mainstream Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Introduces ancestor cults, nature worship, shamanism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism and examines modern religious practice in China