320 Pages
by
Routledge
318 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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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