文档介绍：Miraculous Response:
Doing Popular Religion in
Contemporary China
Adam Yuet Chau
Stanford University Press
Miraculous Response
Doing Popular Religion in
Contemporary China
Miraculous Response
Doing Popular Religion in
Contemporary China
Adam Yuet Chau
stanford university press
Stanford, California 2006
Stanford University Press
Stanford, California
© 2006 by the Board of Trustees of the
Leland Stanford Junior University
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Chau, Adam Yuet.
Miraculous response : doing popular religion in
contemporary China / Adam Yuet Chau.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 0-8047-5160-9 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Shaanxi Sheng (China)—Religion. 2. Shaanxi Sheng
(China)—Social conditions. 3. Religion and culture—
China—Shaanxi Sheng. I. Title.
2005
'1'095143—dc22
2005009492
Printed in the United States of America
Original Printing 2005
Last figure below indicates year of this printing:
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Typeset at Stanford University Press in 10/13 Sabon
to my parents
Contents
Acknowledgments xi
A Note on Units of Measurement, Romanization, and Dates xv
1 Introduction 1
2 Shaanbei History, Society, and Culture 20
3 Shaanbei Popular Religious Landscape 44
4 Beliefs and Practices: Shaanbei People’s Religiosity and
Religious Habitus 59
5 Legends and Histories: Heilongdawang and the
Heilongdawang Temple 77
6 Provisioning Magical Efficacy and Divine Benevolence 99
7 Modes of anization and Folk Event Productions 124
8 Red-Hot Sociality 147
9 Temple Boss and Local Elite: The Story of Lao Wang 169
10 Longwanggou and Agrarian Political Culture 196
11 The Local State and the Politics of Legitimation 211
12 Conclusion 240
Notes 251
References Cited 273
Character List 293
Index 303
Maps, Table, and Figure
Maps
1 Shaanbei, Showing Yan’an and Yulin Prefectures and Location
of Longwanggou 4
2 Schemat