The Flying Phoenix (eBook)

Aspects of Chinese Sectarianism in Taiwan

David K. Jordan, Daniel L. Overmyer (Autoren)

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2014
356 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-5420-2 (ISBN)

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Anthropologist David Jordan and Daniel Overmyer, a historian of religions, present a joint analysis of the most important group of sectarian religious societies in contemporary Taiwan: those that engage in automatic writing seances, or worship by means of the phoenix" writing implement.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: amitabha sutra • Analects • Apostasy • Arthur Waley • Believers (Babylon 5) • Bodhidharma • Bodhisattva • Book • Buddhism • buddhist texts • Canonization • Catechism • chinese folk religion • Christian monasticism • classical education • classical language • Classic of Filial Piety • Compassion • Confucianism • Confucius • creation myth • Creed • Dalit Buddhist movement • deity • Divination • Doctrine of the Mean • etymology • Exorcism • Filial Piety • folk religion • God • Good and evil • Guanyin • Han Yu • Heresy • heterodoxy • Holy of Holies • I Ching • I Wish (manhwa) • Jacob's Ladder • Jade Emperor • Jansenism • Jewish Mysticism • kowtow • Lao-tzu • Liturgy • Lotus Sutra • Mahayana • Maitreya • Mencius • Monasticism • Moral example • Mourner • mozi • Mrs. • Oracle • Pasternak • Persecution • Popular Piety • predestination • Preface (liturgy) • purgatory • Queen Mother of the West • Relationship between religion and science • Religion • Religious education • religious experience • religious text • Restorationism • Rite • Ritual purification • Salvation • sect • Sectarianism • Shamanism • Shennong • Spiritualism • Spiritualist Church • Sun Tzu • Superiority (short story) • Sutra • Syncretism • Taoism • Temple name • Ten Precepts (Taoism) • The Other Hand • The Palace of Eternal Life • There is no alternative • The Secret of Heaven • The Venerable • Three Principles of the People • Three teachings • V. • Vihara • warfare • White Lotus • Word of Wisdom • Worship • Writing • Yellow Emperor
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-5420-2 / 1400854202
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-5420-2 / 9781400854202