Vietnamese Supernaturalism - Views From the Southern Region

Informationen zum Autor Thien Do Klappentext The beliefs and practices surrounding the meanings and symbols of the spirit world in Vietnam are explored in detail in this innovative study on popular religion in the country. The author shows an abiding interest in the 'subconscious life' at a grassroots level alongside rational formations of cosmological understanding which effect politics and economics on a national scale. By bringing together oral histories, reports and fiction writing alongside more conventional documented sources, this book reveals an area of history which has been largely neglected. Zusammenfassung The beliefs and practices surrounding the meanings and symbols of the spirit world in Vietnam are explored in detail in this innovative study on popular religion in the country. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. The Dinh 2. Platform for the Immotals 3. Trance and Shadow 4. Self-Cultivation as Mode of Discourse and Action 5. Daoists from the Mountain Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Thien Do, Do Thien
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.12.2014
• EAN: 9781138863101
• ISBN: 978-1-138-86310-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Tribal religions, Indigenous, ethnic and folk religions and spiritual beliefs, RELIGION / Folk & Tribal