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The Way That Lives in the Heart: Chinese Popular Religion and Spirit Mediums in Penang, Malaysia Hardcover - 2006 - 1st Edition
by Jean Debernardi
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The Way That Lives in the Heart is a richly detailed ethnographic analysis of the practice of Chinese religion in the modern, multicultural Southeast Asian city of Penang, Malaysia. The book conveys both an understanding of shared religious practices and orientations and a sense of how individual men and women imagine, represent, and transform popular religious practices within the time and space of their own lives.
This work is original in three ways. First, the author investigates Penang Chinese religious practice as a total field of religious practice, suggesting ways in which the religious culture, including spirit-mediumship, has been transformed in the conjuncture with modernity. Second, the book emphasizes the way in which socially marginal spirit mediums use a religious anti-language and unique religious rituals to set themselves apart from mainstream society. Third, the study investigates Penang Chinese religion as the product of a specific history, rather than presenting an overgeneralized overview that claims to represent a single "Chinese religion."
This work is original in three ways. First, the author investigates Penang Chinese religious practice as a total field of religious practice, suggesting ways in which the religious culture, including spirit-mediumship, has been transformed in the conjuncture with modernity. Second, the book emphasizes the way in which socially marginal spirit mediums use a religious anti-language and unique religious rituals to set themselves apart from mainstream society. Third, the study investigates Penang Chinese religion as the product of a specific history, rather than presenting an overgeneralized overview that claims to represent a single "Chinese religion."
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- Title The Way That Lives in the Heart: Chinese Popular Religion and Spirit Mediums in Penang, Malaysia
- Author Jean Debernardi
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 392
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford, California
- Date May 10, 2006
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Glossary, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780804752923 / 0804752923
- Weight 1.46 lbs (0.66 kg)
- Dimensions 9.06 x 6.34 x 1.13 in (23.01 x 16.10 x 2.87 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
- Library of Congress subjects Pinang - Religious life and customs, Chinese - Malaysia - Pinang - Rites and
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005031346
- Dewey Decimal Code 299.510
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- Reference and Research Bk News, 08/01/2006, Page 23
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Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good/near fine. Jean DeBernardii in her preface quotes the Chinese saying, "If you ask the gods there will be a reply." If you ever wanted to know about the spirit mediums possessed by the Monkey God, the Third Prince, the Vagabond Buddha and others, then you should find your answer in this well researched but very readbale book. In order to produce this major work on modern Chinese popular religion the author interviewed twenty-two practicing spirit mediums, some of them while in a trance state. The 372 page book includes many relevant black and white illustrations as well as many tables, an extensive bibliography and a glossary in Mandarin and the Penang Hokkien dialect of major terms Very Good Hardback in a Near Fine Dust Jacket Weight: 0.7kg. Post free within Malaysia The dust jacket has minor curling of the edges. There is dirt on the top of the text block and slight signs of damp on the end papers. Otherwise the book looks new.
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