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Adam Yuet Chau. Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China.(Book review)
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China Review International
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September 22, 2006
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Adam Yuet Chau. Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. xviii, 317 pp. Hardcover $60.00, ISBN 0-8047-5160-9.
More than an ethnographic case study on the revival of a local temple cult in Northern China, Miraculous Response is an intellectually stimulating engagement with the anthropological approach to Chinese local society, politics, and religion. Through his description of the Longwanggou temple complex in Northern Shaanxi, its boss, its networks with political actors and local communities, and its festivals, what Chau unpacks is not so much an exclusively "religious" world of gods and rituals, but ...
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