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The sexual politics of karmic retributionessay 1981 • Seaman, Gary
Taiwan Hokkien • Asia > East Asia
Seaman examined beliefs in the polluting power of women and their bodies in relation to an evident paradox of funeral rites, at which sons must symbolically drink of their birth blood as proof of their filial piety toward their mothers. The text of t...Temple organization in a Chinese villageBook 1983 • Seaman, Gary
Taiwan Hokkien • Asia > East Asia
This dissertation explores the connection between religious ideology and political activity by focussing on the development of a 'spirit writing cult' in a central Taiwanese village called Pearl Mountain. Seaman argues that the cult provides the moti...