Table of Contents:
  • On the sociological study of Chinese religion / Maurice Freedman
  • Religion and ritual in Lukang / Donald R. Deglopper
  • Religious organization in the history of a Chinese town / Wang Shih-Ch'ing
  • Village alliance temples in Hong Kong / John A. Brim
  • Domestic and communal worship in Taiwan / Stephan Feuchtwang
  • Gods, ghosts, and ancestors / Arthur P. Wolf
  • Taiwanese architecture and the supernatural / Wang Sung-Hsing
  • When a ghost becomes a god / C. Stevan Harrell
  • Cantonese shamanism / Jack M. Potter
  • Cosmic antagonisms: a mother-child syndrome / Marjorie Topley
  • Ancestor worship and burial practices / H.G.H. Nelson
  • Affines and the rituals of kinship ./ Emily M. Ahern
  • The written memorial in Taoist ceremonies / Kristofer M. Schipper
  • Orthodoxy and heterodoxy in Taoist ritual / Michael Saso
  • Afterword / Robert J. Smith.