Embodying Utopia: Charisma in the post-Mao Qigong Craze

This article discusses the dynamics of charismatic religious movements through the case of the qigong craze, which was the largest mass spiritual/religious movement in urban China in the 1980s and 1990s, until the banning of Falun Gong in 1999. Charisma can be apprehended at three levels: as the emb...

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Main Author: Palmer, David A. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Californiarnia Press 2008
In: Nova religio
Year: 2008, Volume: 12, Issue: 2, Pages: 69-89
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