Goddess on the Rise : : Pilgrimage and Popular Religion in Vietnam /

Goddess on the Rise : : Pilgrimage and Popular Religion in Vietnam / / Philip Taylor.

Since the early 1990s, the shrine of Ba Chua Xu, the Lady of the Realm, has become the most visited religious site in southern Vietnam, receiving more than a million visitors annually. Mother, benevolent creditor, healer, relationship advisor, business consultant, the Lady of the Realm is one of a g...

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Taylor, Philip,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2004]
©2004
Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: An Outline of the Quest
  • 1. Spiritualizing the Borders
  • 2. The Ethnicity of Efficacy
  • 3. Embodying Market Relations
  • 4. Reinscribing Rural Religion
  • 5. Familiar Journeys
  • 6. The Experience of Festival
  • 7. Magical Fame and Symbolic Ambiguity
  • 8. The Lady and the Buddha
  • 9. Goddess of Freedom
  • Epilogue: On Pilgrimages and Freedom in Late-Socialist Vietnam
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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