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Taoist Ritual in Chinese Society and History

John Lagerwey

出版	Macmillan, 1987
主題	History / Asia / ChinaReligion / Taoism
ISBN	00289648029780028964805
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=n3bXAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

This is the first comprehensive English-language introduction to Taoist ritual both for the scholar and the general reader. In this splendid account, Taoism is presented as a system of religious symbol and action deeply rooted in centuries of Chinese social life. In vivid detail, Lagerwey describes the intricacies of Taoist rituals as performed by a single Taoist priest in present-day Taiwan. With the methodology of a literary critic, he explains what the Taoist priests have done, and continue to do, as intercessors acting to protect their communities, and what these beliefs and practices mean to the followers.