Popular Religion in China

<p>First published in 2001 <i>Popular Religion in China: The Imperial Metaphor </i>was written to bring together both the previously unpublished and published results of fieldwork in the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan and to put them into an historical political and theoretical context. </p><p>The book presents Chinese popular religion as a distinctive institution and describes its content as an ‘imperial metaphor’. In doing so it explores a wide range of topics including both official and local cults local festivals Daoism Ang Gong the politics of religion and political ritual. </p>