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| Price: |
$27.00 |
| Member Price: |
$24.30 |
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| Author: |
Taylor,P |
| Publisher: |
U of Hawaii Pr., 1/04 |
| Format: |
Pbk,
416pp |
| Region: |
Southeast Asia |
| Country: |
Vietnam |
Since the early 1990s, the shrine of Ba Chua Xu, the Lady of the Realm, has become the most visited religious site in southern Vietnam, receiving more than a million visitors annually. Goddess on the Rise follows these pilgrims' pathways, taking readers on a journey through a cultural landscape of popular rites, beliefs, and exegesis into a world where female deities reign supreme. Philip Taylor's in-depth study of pilgrimage introduces readers to the practical expectations, passions, and controversies that surround goddesses, bringing to life the effervescence, creativity, and flux of modern Vietnamese religion. Taylor offers important insights into people's everyday experience of the profound economic, cultural, and social transformations underway in this socialist country. (BIP)
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