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- Title
Daoism in Modern China: Clerics and Temples in Urban Transformations, 1860–Present by Vincent Goossaert and Xun Liu (review).
- Authors
DeBernardi, Jean
- Abstract
Since 1989 the Daoists have restored the temple buildings, but the 69 branch temples have been reduced to a dozen affiliated altars, none of which publicly practice spirit-writing (p. 101). The next year, the temple was demolished: "The nearly 800-year-old Daoist temple and major center of both official and popular worship of Jiangnan was razed to the ground" (p. 166). Liu concludes that the local government response, the entrenched occupation of the shrines, and Daoist institutional weaknesses and minority status, all combined to make Daoist temple recovery and revival "frustratingly elusive and rare in contemporary Nanyang" (p. 74). The Communist government had appropriated the temple's lands in 1950, and in 1958 they had expelled the Daoist priests, establishing a museum in the temple.
- Subjects
CHINA; TEMPLES; TAOISM; PETITIONS; PRIESTS; TEAROOMS; RECOLLECTION (Psychology)
- Publication
Journal of Chinese Religions, 2022, Vol 50, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0737-769X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jcr.2022.0006