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A Time of Lost Gods - Mediumship, Madness, and the Ghost after Mao (Hardcover)
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A Time of Lost Gods - Mediumship, Madness, and the Ghost after Mao (Hardcover)
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Traversing visible and invisible realms, A Time of Lost Gods
attends to profound rereadings of politics, religion, and madness
in the cosmic accounts of spirit mediumship. Drawing on research
across a temple, a psychiatric unit, and the home altars of spirit
mediums in a rural county of China's Central Plain, it asks: What
ghostly forms emerge after the death of Mao and the so-called end
of history? The story of religion in China since the market reforms
of the late 1970s is often told through its destruction under Mao
and relative flourishing thereafter. Here, those who engage in
mediumship offer a different history of the present. They approach
Mao's reign not simply as an earthly secular rule, but an
exceptional interval of divine sovereignty, after which the cosmos
collapsed into chaos. Caught between a fading era and an
ever-receding horizon, those "left behind" by labor outmigration
refigure the evacuated hometown as an ethical-spiritual center to
come, amidst a proliferation of madness-inducing spirits. Following
pronouncements of China's rise, and in the wake of what Chinese
intellectuals termed semicolonialism, the stories here tell of
spirit mediums, patients, and psychiatrists caught in a shared
dilemma, in a time when gods have lost their way.
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