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Dream trippers : global Daoism and the predicament of modern spirituality / David A. Palmer and Elijah Siegler.

Anthropologists David A. Palmer and Elijah Siegler explore the globalization of Daoism: the interactions between international spiritual tourists, traditional Chinese monks, and American scholar-practitioners at the sacred Daoist mountain of Huashan, China. Palmer and Siegler show how the spiritual...

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Main Authors: Palmer, David A., 1969- (Author), Siegler, Elijah (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Taoism.
Globalization > Religious aspects > Taoism.
Spirituality > Taoism.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages > China > Hua Mountain (Shaanxi Sheng)
Taoists > United States.
Taoists > China.
Taoism > United States.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages.
Taoists.
China.
China > Hua Mountain (Shaanxi Sheng)
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • The subject
  • The mountain
  • The trippers
  • The cloud wanderers
  • The encounters
  • The scholar-practitioners
  • The predicament
  • Epilogue: the cosmic orgasms.

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