Materializing magic power : : Chinese popular religion in villages and cities / / Wei-Ping Lin.
Materializing Magic Power paints a broad picture of the dynamics of popular religion in Taiwan. The first book to explore contemporary Chinese popular religion from its cultural, social, and material perspectives, it analyzes these aspects of religious practice in a unified framework and traces thei...
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