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Taoism and Chinese Religion

The Religion of Java

by Clifford Geertz

A classic ethnography of religious life in a town in East Java in the early 1950s, distinguishing the village ritual tradition, the orthodox Muslim milieu and the mysticism of the old aristocratic class. Its picture of healers, slametan feasts and mystical societies has been widely debated but remains a landmark of the anthropology of religion.

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