Dream Trippers

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Dream Trippers

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ISBN: 9780226484846
écrit par: David A. Palmer / Elijah Siegler
édition: University Of Chicago Press
date de publication: 2017 -11
reliure: Paperback
prix: USD 27.50
nombre de pages: 352

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Global Daoism and the Predicament of Modern Spirituality

David A. Palmer / Elijah Siegler   

résumé

Over the past few decades, Daoism has become a recognizable part of Western “alternative” spiritual life. Now, that Westernized version of Daoism is going full circle, traveling back from America and Europe to influence Daoism in China.
Dream Trippers draws on more than a decade of ethnographic work with Daoist monks and Western seekers to trace the spread of Westernized Daoism in contemporary China. David A. Palmer and Elijah Siegler take us into the daily life of the monastic community atop the mountain of Huashan and explore its relationship to the socialist state. They follow the international circuit of Daoist "energy tourism," which connects a number of sites throughout China, and examine the controversies around Western scholars who become practitioners and promoters of Daoism. Throughout are lively portrayals of encounters among the book’s various characters—Chinese hermits and monks, Western seekers, and scholar-practitioners—as they interact with each other in obtuse, often humorous, and yet sometimes enlightening and transformative ways. Dream Trippers untangles the anxieties, confusions, and ambiguities that arise as Chinese and American practitioners balance cosmological attunement and radical spiritual individualism in their search for authenticity in a globalized world.

contents

Acknowledgments
1The Subject
2The Mountain
3The Trippers
4The Cloud Wanderers
5The Encounters
6The Scholar-Practitioners
7The Predicament
Epilogue: The Cosmic Orgasms
Appendix: Methodological Issues
Notes
Glossary of Chinese Terms
Bibliography
Index

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