The lady of Linshui : a Chinese female cult
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The lady of Linshui : a Chinese female cult
（Asian religions & cultures / edited by Carl Bielefeldt, Bernard Faure）
Stanford University Press, c2008
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Dame-du-bord-de-l'eau
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Translation of: La dame-du-bord-de-l'eau. c1988
Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-347) and index
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Description
This anthropological study examines the cult of the Chinese goddess Chen Jinggu, divine protector of women and children. The cult of the "Lady of Linshui" began in the province of Fujian on the southeastern coast of China during the eleventh century and remains vital in present-day Taiwan. Skilled in Daoist practices, Chen Jinggu's rituals of exorcism and shamanism mobilize physiological alchemy in the service of human and natural fertility. Through her fieldwork at the Linshuima temple in Tainan (Taiwan) and her analysis of the narrative and symbolic aspects of legends surrounding the Lady of Linshui, Baptandier provides new insights into Chinese representations of the feminine and the role of women in popular religion.
Table of Contents
Contents List of Illustrations xxx Preface xxx Translator's Note xxx Introduction 1 1. Sexual Categories 000 2. The Goddess of Pregnancy Has an Abortion and Returns to Mt. L' 000 3. The Bridge of a Hundred Flowers 000 4. Cinnabar Cloud Monkey 000 5. The Thirty-six Pojie 000 6. The God of the Soil and the Lady of the Birth Register 000 7. Women and the Temple: the "Celestial Flower" 000 8. Children and the Temple: the Passes (guan) 000 9. Rituals of the Flowers and Passes 000 10. Chen Jinggu's Medium 000 Conclusion 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
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