A time of lost gods: mediumship, madness, and the ghost after Mao

"The story of religion in China since the economic reforms of the 1980s is often told through its destruction under Mao and relative flourishing thereafter. A Time of Lost Gods offers a different history of the present. Drifting across a temple, a psychiatric unit, and the homes of spirit mediu...

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Main Author: Ng, Emily 1983- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Oakland, California University of Californiarnia Press [2020]
In:Year: 2020
Series/Journal:A Philip E. Lilienthal book
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B China / Economic reform / Rural area / Power loss / Religious life / Belief in spirits / Mental illness / History 1980-2019
B China / Henan / Anthropology of religion / Popular piety / Belief in spirits / Shamanism / History 1980-2019
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AE Psychology of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
KBM Asia
Further subjects:B Ghosts
B Tang-ki worship (China) (Henan Sheng)
B Henan Sheng (China) Rural conditions
B Mental Illness (China) (Henan Sheng)
B Henan Sheng (China) Religious life and customs
B China Social life and customs 1976-2002
B China Social life and customs 2002-
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Parallel Edition:Erscheint auch als: 978-0-520-97263-6

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