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Materializing Magic Power - Chinese Popular Religion in Villages and Cities (Hardcover)
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Materializing Magic Power - Chinese Popular Religion in Villages and Cities (Hardcover)
Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
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Materializing Magic Power paints a broad picture of the dynamics of
popular religion in Taiwan. The first book to explore contemporary
Chinese popular religion from its cultural, social, and material
perspectives, it analyzes these aspects of religious practice in a
unified framework and traces their transformation as adherents move
from villages to cities. In this groundbreaking study, Wei-Ping Lin
offers a fresh perspective on the divine power of Chinese deities
as revealed in two important material forms-god statues and spirit
mediums. By examining the significance of these religious
manifestations, Lin identifies personification and localization as
the crucial cultural mechanisms that bestow efficacy on deity
statues and spirit mediums. She further traces the social
consequences of materialization and demonstrates how the different
natures of materials mediate distinct kinds of divine power. The
first part of the book provides a detailed account of popular
religion in villages. This is followed by a discussion of how rural
migrant workers cope with challenges in urban environments by
inviting branch statues of village deities to the city,
establishing an urban shrine, and selecting a new spirit medium.
These practices show how traditional village religion is being
reconfigured in cities today.
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