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Article: Transnational Sacralizations: When Daoist Monks Meet Spiritual Tourists
Title | Transnational Sacralizations: When Daoist Monks Meet Spiritual Tourists |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Daoism dwelling perspective globalization qigong Sacrality spiritual tourism |
Issue Date | 2014 |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00141844.asp |
Citation | Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, 2014, v. 79 n. 2, p. 169-192 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This article examines the production of sacrality in the context of globalization, through the
case of encounters between international spiritual tourists and Chinese monks. The sacred
mountain of Huashan has historically been localized in the context of Daoist cosmology,
Chinese imperial civilizing, socialist nation-building and, now, global capitalism. While the
monks experience Huashan as a gateway for embeddedness into Daoist lineage, ritual and
cosmology, the spiritual tourists approach it as a fountain of raw, consumable energy on a
path of disembedding and individuation. But encounters between the two groups lead to the
mutual interference and interpenetration of both trajectories. Undermining dichotomist
concepts of the sacred which define it as either essentially Other or as socially constructed
and contested, the sacrality of Huashan serves as both an anchor for multiple centralizing
projects and forces, and as a catalyst and node for the formation of interconnecting and
expanding horizontal networks. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/189428 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 1.0 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.392 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Palmer, DA | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-09-17T14:40:37Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2013-09-17T14:40:37Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, 2014, v. 79 n. 2, p. 169-192 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0014-1844 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/189428 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This article examines the production of sacrality in the context of globalization, through the case of encounters between international spiritual tourists and Chinese monks. The sacred mountain of Huashan has historically been localized in the context of Daoist cosmology, Chinese imperial civilizing, socialist nation-building and, now, global capitalism. While the monks experience Huashan as a gateway for embeddedness into Daoist lineage, ritual and cosmology, the spiritual tourists approach it as a fountain of raw, consumable energy on a path of disembedding and individuation. But encounters between the two groups lead to the mutual interference and interpenetration of both trajectories. Undermining dichotomist concepts of the sacred which define it as either essentially Other or as socially constructed and contested, the sacrality of Huashan serves as both an anchor for multiple centralizing projects and forces, and as a catalyst and node for the formation of interconnecting and expanding horizontal networks. | - |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00141844.asp | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology | en_US |
dc.rights | PREPRINT This is a preprint of an article whose final and definitive form has been published in the [JOURNAL TITLE] [year of publication] [copyright Taylor & Francis]; [JOURNAL TITLE] is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/ with the open URL of your article POSTPRINT ‘This is an electronic version of an article published in [include the complete citation information for the final version of the article as published in the print edition of the journal]. [JOURNAL TITLE] is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/ with the open URL of your article. | en_US |
dc.subject | Daoism | - |
dc.subject | dwelling perspective | - |
dc.subject | globalization | - |
dc.subject | qigong | - |
dc.subject | Sacrality | - |
dc.subject | spiritual tourism | - |
dc.title | Transnational Sacralizations: When Daoist Monks Meet Spiritual Tourists | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Palmer, DA: palmer19@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Palmer, DA=rp00654 | en_US |
dc.description.nature | postprint | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/00141844.2012.714396 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84894242565 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 223669 | en_US |
dc.identifier.volume | 79 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 2 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 169 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 192 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1469-588X | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000331360100001 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0014-1844 | - |