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Goddess on the Rise : Pilgrimage and Popular Religion in Vietnam /
Since the early 1990s, the shrine of Ba Chua Xu, the Lady of the Realm, has become the most visited religious site in southern Vietnam, receiving more than a million visitors annually. Mother, benevolent creditor, healer, relationship advisor, business consultant, the Lady of the Realm is one of a g...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaii Press,
[2004]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: An Outline of the Quest
- 1. Spiritualizing the Borders
- 2. The Ethnicity of Efficacy
- 3. Embodying Market Relations
- 4. Reinscribing Rural Religion
- 5. Familiar Journeys
- 6. The Experience of Festival
- 7. Magical Fame and Symbolic Ambiguity
- 8. The Lady and the Buddha
- 9. Goddess of Freedom
- Epilogue: On Pilgrimages and Freedom in Late-Socialist Vietnam
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index