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The Goddess, the Ethnologist, the Folklorist and the Cadre: Situating Exegesis of Vietnam's Folk Religion in Time and Place1
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Vietnamese anthropology has been portrayed as a project in close alignment with the goals of a progressivist, culturally assimilationist and security-oriented state. This paper explores unexpectedly positive assessments by anthropologists and folklorists of a recent popular upsurge in goddess wor
ship, which many local scholars deem an example of local, time-honoured and integrative cultural practice. Such assessments may be viewed in the context of state attempts to strengthen national identifications as a counterbalance to its policies of economic liberalisation and integration with the ...
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Letters from Heaven: Popular Religion in Russia and Ukraine
; ...Zayarnyuk, eds. Letters from Heaven: Popular Religion in Russia and Ukraine. Toronto: University...by focusing on Orthodox and Uniate popular religion. In compiling this collection, the editors sought to engage the concept of "popular religion" and to explore the usefulness of...
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Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China.(Book review)
; MIRACULOUS RESPONSE: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China. By Adam Yuet...paints a portrait of contemporary popular religion in this region almost without reference...state's avowed intentions to reform popular religion (and Western scholarly tendencies...
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Elite and Popular Religion: Papers Read at the 2004 Summer Meeting and the 2005 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society
; Elite and Popular Religion: Papers Read at the 2004 Summer...meetings span aspects of elite and popular religion from Visigoth Spain to pop music...over a long period-of elite and popular religion. A number of essays in the collection...
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; Popular Religion in Germany and Central Europe, 1400-18...spirituality and the infant Jesus, Hussite popular religion, witchcraft, a witch-trial, popular...in Lindau, a prophet in Lubeck, popular religion and Jesuit missionary efforts in...
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(book review)
; FEUCHTWANT, STEPHAN. Popular religion in China: the imperial metaphor...Feuchtwang's study of Chinese popular religion marked a significant advance...title, The imperial metaphor: popular religion in China. It was widely and...
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Xiaofei Kang. The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China.(Book review)
; ...Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China...categorization has dominated our view of popular religion since the publication in the early...spirit world of Chinese (or Taiwanese) popular religion breaks down into three major types...
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`Goddess' worship is a good idea
; ...and she never lives it down. What goddess worship is not, is hags around a caldron. Goddess worship is not Halloween. It is not Medea...like it if someone did that to you?" Goddess worship is a natural haven for disillusioned...
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Being Religious, American Style: A History of Popular Religiosity in the United States
; ...to trace the history of "popular" religion among the American people...construct a history of American popular religion, I was troubled by his method...this history. Lippy sees popular religion and its history as a companion...
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Popular Religion and Modernization in Latin America: A Different Logic
; Popular Religion and Modernization in Latin America...tired of the arrogant dismissal of popular religion as vestigial superstition, tired...of the many-sided forms taken by popular religion in today's Latin America and the...
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Adam Yuet Chau. Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China.(Book review)
; ...Yuet Chau. Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China Stanford, CA...works and many articles on Chinese popular religion in post-Mao China, but there are rather...who are interested in the study of popular religion in China. The subtitle doing popular...
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