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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780226484983
  • 022648498X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 299.5/14 23
LOC classification:
  • BL1923 .P35 2017eb
NLM classification:
  • WB 71.2 P173d 2017
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
The subject -- The mountain -- The trippers -- The cloud wanderers -- The encounters -- The scholar-practitioners -- The predicament -- Epilogue: the cosmic orgasms.
Summary: 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 and religious histories of China and the West intersect, collide, and interpenetrate, revealing the paradoxes and dilemmas of the search for spiritual authenticity in a globalized world.--Provided by publisher.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)1571852

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The subject -- The mountain -- The trippers -- The cloud wanderers -- The encounters -- The scholar-practitioners -- The predicament -- Epilogue: the cosmic orgasms.

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 and religious histories of China and the West intersect, collide, and interpenetrate, revealing the paradoxes and dilemmas of the search for spiritual authenticity in a globalized world.--Provided by publisher.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 4, 2017).