The Flying Phoenix
Aspects of Chinese Sectarianism in Taiwan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3968817 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Judith Magee Boltz |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 109 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 499 |
| Publication date | 1989-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | The Flying Phoenix: Aspects of Chinese Sectarianism in Taiwan, David K Jordan, 1986 |
| Venue | Journal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/604183 |
| OpenAlex | W2075328789 |
| Language | EN |
Anthropologist David Jordan and Daniel Overmyer, a historian of religions, present a joint analysis of the most important group of sectarian religious societies in contemporary Taiwan: those that engage in automatic writing seances, or worship by means of the phoenix writing implement.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
Ancient history · Archaeology · Metropolitan area · Phoenix · Political science · Sectarianism · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Japanese History and Culture · Law
Bridging the Gaps
Trajectories of Folk Religion in Deregulated Taiwan
The Regulation of Religious Affairs in Taiwan
Global Religious Changes and Civil Life in Two Chinese Societies
Taiwan’s Covenantal Pluralism
Qiuwen (Bibliomancy)
Divine Contracts
Spirit-Writing and the Development of Chinese Cults
The Eternal Mother and the State
The Tale of Lady Tan
Religion as an object of state power
Who is This I? Who is That Other
Of Poems, Gods, and Spirit-Writing Altars
Peasant insurrection in China reconsidered
The Politics of Legitimation and the Revival of Popular Religion in Shaanbei, North-Central China
Female Spirit Mediums and Religious Authority in Contemporary Southeastern China
Longitudinal Trends of Religious Groups in Deregulated Taiwan
Divination and Politics in Southern Vietnam
Gifts of Money and Gifts of Time
From Moral Exemplar to National Hero
The Kaifeng Jews
China off center
Taoism and Self Knowledge
Contesting the Yellow Dragon
From bones to ashes
The Hearth and the Temple
Moral Mediums
The Anti–Unity Sect Campaign and Mass Mobilization in the Early People's Republic of China
Women of the Sisters' Hall
Living at the Edge
"A Precious Raft to Save the World" The Interaction of Scriptural Traditions and Printing in a Chinese Morality Book
From Credulity to Scorn
Modernity and Millenialism in China
Local History through Popular Religion
Impact of the State on the Evolution of a Sect
Do Immortals Kill
Immortals and Alchemists
Syncretic Sects and Redemptive Societies
Gendering the Planchette
Genre Conflation and Fictional Religiosity in Guilian meng (Returning to the Lotus Dream)
Dejiao, a Chinese Religious Movement in the Age of Globalization
Longmen Taoism in Qing China
Sanctuary of the Tao
The Precious Scroll on Bodhisattva Guanshiyin from Jingjiang, and Confucian Morality
Morality Books and Taiwanese Identity The Texts of the Palace of Guidance
Lord of The Three In One
A Posthumous Return from Exile
Mapping Charisma among Chinese Religious Specialists
Identity Politics And The Study Of Popular Religion In Postwar Taiwan
Gods, Ghosts, and Gangsters
From Comrades to Bodhisattvas
Merit And Mothering
Occulting the Dao
Entrepreneurial Logics and the Evolution of Falun Gong
Imperial Fantasies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |