Lineages Embedded in Temple Networks: Daoism and Local Society in Ming China

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Notes

1 For more on such terminological issues, see Ownby, Goossaert, and Ji, eds., “Making Saints in Modern China.”

2 Schipper, et al., “Taoism: The Story of the Way.”

3 Dean, “Transformations of the She (Altars of the Soil) in Fujian.”

4 See also p. 260: “Daoist lineages and their ‘Taoist liturgical framework’ played a significant role in structuring Daoism and society” (italics added).

5 Goossaert, “Taoists, 1644–1850,” 444.

6 Katz, “The Development of Jiangnan Daoist Networks of Transmission and Affiliation.” See also Kang, “Women and the Religious Question in Modern China”; Valussi, “Men Built Religion, Women Made it Superstitious.”

7 For more on this point, see Katz and Goossaert, The Fifty Years that Changed Chinese Religion, 103.