Chinese Spirit-medium Cults in Singapore
Author | : Alan John Anthony Elliott |
Publisher | : Berg Publishers |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Alan John Anthony Elliott |
Publisher | : Berg Publishers |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Alan Elliott |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2020-08-19 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 100032429X |
The concentration of this monograph on Chinese spirit mediumship in Singapore is chiefly a device for focussing attention upon the most typical, although rather extreme, manifestation of the major religious orientation of the overseas Chinese. The accounts given here may chiefly be of value as a detailed record of religious rites, but it is hoped that the rites, shown in their institutional context, can also throw some light upon the wider ramifications of culture and society among the Chinese
Author | : Alan J. Elliott |
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Release | : 1981 |
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Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 1955 |
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Author | : Alan John Anthony Elliott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2003-08-01 |
Genre | : Chinese |
ISBN | : 9780756767839 |
Spirit mediumship is the most typical aspect of the major religious orientation of the Chinese in Singapore (CS), with their immense range of religious beliefs and practices. Although the focus of this study is upon the spirit-medium cults, it also provides a valuable account of Chinese religious life in Singapore and its social and cultural setting. This is an historical study; the field research was carried out in 1950-1951. The highly personalized nature of these cults has meant that they re short-lived. Also, in the decades since the study, the life of the CS has changed radically, and many of their ritual practices have altered accordingly. But at that time, this research was unique in that it provided info. about how ordinary Chinese conducted their daily ritual affairs.
Author | : Alan Elliott |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2020-08-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000320898 |
Chinese Spirit-Medium Cults in Singapore
Author | : Marjorie Topley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 6 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Chinese |
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Author | : J. A. Elliott |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1955 |
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Author | : Hock Tong Cheu |
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Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Asia, Southeastern |
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Author | : Jean Elizabeth DeBernardi |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780804752923 |
The Way That Lives in the Heart is a richly detailed ethnographic analysis of the practice of Chinese religion in the modern, multicultural Southeast Asian city of Penang, Malaysia. The book conveys both an understanding of shared religious practices and orientations and a sense of how individual men and women imagine, represent, and transform popular religious practices within the time and space of their own lives. This work is original in three ways. First, the author investigates Penang Chinese religious practice as a total field of religious practice, suggesting ways in which the religious culture, including spirit-mediumship, has been transformed in the conjuncture with modernity. Second, the book emphasizes the way in which socially marginal spirit mediums use a religious anti-language and unique religious rituals to set themselves apart from mainstream society. Third, the study investigates Penang Chinese religion as the product of a specific history, rather than presenting an overgeneralized overview that claims to represent a single "Chinese religion."