Download or read book Popular Religion in China written by Stephan Feuchtwang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-23 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001, Popular Religion in China: The Imperial Metaphor was written to bring together both the previously unpublished and published results of fieldwork in the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan and to put them into an historical, political, and theoretical context. The book presents Chinese popular religion as a distinctive institution and describes its content as an ‘imperial metaphor’. In doing so, it explores a wide range of topics, including both official and local cults, local festivals, Daoism, Ang Gong, the politics of religion, and political ritual.