Table of contents : Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Therapeutic Movements in the Song: Texts 3. New Therapeutic Movements in the Song: Practitioners 4. The Cult of the Black Killer 5. The Daoist Ritual Master and Child-Mediums 6. Tantric Exorcists and Child-Mediums 7. Daoist Priests, Confucian Literati, and Child-Mediums 8. Spirit-Possession and the Grateful Dead: Daoist and Buddhist Mortuary Ritual in the Song 9. The Syncretic Field of Chinese Religion Appendix: Huanglu jiao and Shuilu zhai Notes Glossary Bibliography Index About the Author