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January 7, 2012

contested sacred space on maoshan

By: James Miller

[caption id="attachment_524" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Maoshan Temple"][/caption] In May 2010 I had the opportunity to visit Maoshan, an important Daoist site in Jiangsu province (see here for my earlier post). One result of my fieldwork was that it gave a deeper...
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December 15, 2011

mazu: marine ecoregion goddess

By: James Miller

[caption id="attachment_492" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="The Guandu Temple, Taipei"][/caption] According to tradition, Mazu (Matsu) was a girl who lived in the late tenth century who was renowned for her assistance to seafarers. She was posthumously deified and attracted a wide cult...
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