Chinese religion in Malaysia : : temples and communities / / by Tan Chee-Beng.

Based on long-term ethnographic study, this is the first comprehensive work on the Chinese popular religion in Malaysia. It analyses temples and communities in historical and contemporary perspective, the diversity of deities and Chinese speech groups, religious specialists and temple services, the...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Chinese Overseas 12.
Physical Description:1 online resource (167 pages).
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