Ritual and Scripture in Chinese Popular Religion: Five Studies
Johnson, David, ed.
Chinese Popular Culture Project 3
1995. 280 pp.
ISBN 0-9624327-3-3
$15.00
Contents
Introduction—vii
Rituals and Scriptures of the Stove Cult—3
Robert L. Chard
Mu-lien in Pao-chuan
The Performance Context and Religious Meaning of the Yu-ming Pao-ch'uan—55
David Johnson
The Liturgies for Sacrifices to Ancestors in Successive Versions of the Family Rituals—104
Patricia Berry
The Cult of the Wu-t'ung / Wu-hsien in History and Fiction
The Religious Roots of the Journey to the South—137
Ursula-Angelika Cedzich
Language Adaptation in Taoist Liturgical Texts—219
Chinfa Lein
Glossary- Index—247
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