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u Chenxiang, the emotionless ghost boss, ate up all the ghosts in the haunted house, crawled out of the haunted house with a hungry stomach, fainted from hunger at the entrance of the haunted house, and woke up again as a sixteen-year-old high school girl. In order to fill her stomach, she rushes to the front line of searching, catching and eating ghosts every day.
"By looking at the activities of Taoist clerics in Peking, this book explores the workings of religion as a profession in one Chinese city during a period of dramatic modernization. The author focuses on ordinary religious professionals, most of whom remained obscure temple employees. Although almost forgotten, they were all major actors in urban religious and cultural life. The clerics at the heart of this study spent their time training disciples, practicing and teaching self-cultivation, performing rituals, and managing temples. Vincent Goossaert shows that these Taoists were neither the socially despised illiterates dismissed in so many studies, nor otherworldly ascetics, but active part...
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Vol. 1- includes Glossary of sociological and anthropological terms.
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