In Search of the Folk Daoists of North China

(ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.) Daoist rituals carried out by priests in south China and Taiwan have been relatively well studied, as have those of the Quanzhen monastic traditions in the north, but the pioneering work of Stephen Jones and his Chinese colleagues has opened up for...

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Published inBulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Vol. 74; no. 3; pp. 518 - 519
Main Author Overmyer, Dan
Format Book Review Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.01.2011
Subjects
China
Chinese
Chinese studies
EAST ASIA
Folk beliefs
Music
Religious communities
Religious minorities
Rituals
Taoism
Traditions
Wind instruments
United States > US
China
Taiwan
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Summary:(ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.) Daoist rituals carried out by priests in south China and Taiwan have been relatively well studied, as have those of the Quanzhen monastic traditions in the north, but the pioneering work of Stephen Jones and his Chinese colleagues has opened up for us a whole realm of lay-based Daoist ritual and music in the north. No lay Daoists we met spoke of any formal graduation or ordination process in learning to be a Daoist, some even observed that you are born a Daoist, so how could you go through an exam?!â[euro] (pp. 36-42). [...]some of the oldest Daoist traditions we know of developed in the south-west and north, and the present book clarifies that they are still present there.
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ISSN:0041-977X
1474-0699
DOI:10.1017/S0041977X11000656