Thomas David Dubois, The Sacred Village. Social Change and Religious Life in Rural North China

Abstract

Background : rural Cang County -- Religious life and the village community -- Spirits, sectarians, and xiangtou : religious knowledge in local culture -- Monastic Buddhism : the limits of institutional religion -- Pseudomonastic sectarians : the Li Sect in town and country -- Apocalyptic sectarians : the way of penetrating unity and the end of days -- Village sectarians : the Most Supreme and heaven and earth teachings.