The sacred village : social change and religious life in rural north China

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Title:	The sacred village : social change and religious life in rural north China; Social change and religious life in rural north China
Author:	DuBois, Thomas David, 1969
Date:	c2005
Publisher:	Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press
Description:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-269) and index. Acknowledgements -- Note on Conventions and Usage -- Introduction -- Background: Rural Cang -- County -- Religious Life and the -- Village Community -- Spirits, Sectarians and -- Xiangtou. Religious Knowledge in Local Culture -- Monastic Buddhism: The -- Limits of Institutional Religion -- Pseudo-Monastic -- Sectarians: The Li Sect in Town and Country -- Apocalyptic Sectarians -- The Way of Penetrating Unity and the End of Days -- Village Sectarians: The -- Most Supreme and Heaven and Earth -- Teachings -- Conclusion: Cang County -- and Chinese Religion -- Appendices -- Notes -- Character Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index Table of contents also available via World Wide Web xii, 275 p. ill., maps 24 cm
Identifier:	http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0416/2004006310.html ISBN:0824828372 (alk. paper)
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10125/23070
Keywords:	Cangzhou (China)