1st Edition

Vietnamese Supernaturalism Views from the Southern Region

By Thien Do Copyright 2003
    320 Pages
    by Routledge

    318 Pages
    by Routledge

    The beliefs and practices surrounding the meanings and symbols of the spirit world in Vietnam are explored in detail in this innovative study on popular religion in the country. The author shows an abiding interest in the 'subconscious life' at a grassroots level alongside rational formations of cosmological understanding which effect politics and economics on a national scale. By bringing together oral histories, reports and fiction writing alongside more conventional documented sources, this book reveals an area of history which has been largely neglected.

    Introduction 1. The Dinh 2. Platform for the Immotals 3. Trance and Shadow 4. Self-Cultivation as Mode of Discourse and Action 5. Daoists from the Mountain Conclusion

    Biography

    Thien Do