Goddess on the Rise: Pilgrimage and Popular Religion in Vietnam 9780824844516
Since the early 1990s, the shrine of Ba Chua Xu, the Lady of the Realm, has become the most visited religious site in so
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English Pages 344 Year 2004
Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Introduction: An Outline of the Quest
1. Spiritualizing the Borders
2. The Ethnicity of Efficacy
3. Embodying Market Relations
4. Reinscribing Rural Religion
5. Familiar Journeys
6. The Experience of Festival
7. Magical Fame and Symbolic Ambiguity
8. The Lady and the Buddha
9. Goddess of Freedom
Epilogue: On Pilgrimages and Freedom in Late-Socialist Vietnam
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Contents
Preface
Introduction: An Outline of the Quest
1. Spiritualizing the Borders
2. The Ethnicity of Efficacy
3. Embodying Market Relations
4. Reinscribing Rural Religion
5. Familiar Journeys
6. The Experience of Festival
7. Magical Fame and Symbolic Ambiguity
8. The Lady and the Buddha
9. Goddess of Freedom
Epilogue: On Pilgrimages and Freedom in Late-Socialist Vietnam
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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- Philip Taylor
