Dream Trippers : Global Daoism and the Predicament of Modern Spirituality

作者：DavidA.Palmer/ElijahSiegler/宗树人

出版社：UniversityOfChicagoPress

副标题：GlobalDaoismandthePredicamentofModernSpirituality

出版年：2017-11-27

页数：352

定价：USD27.50

装帧：Paperback

ISBN：9780226484846

内容简介
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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.

作者简介
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David A. Palmer is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in China, among other books.

Elijah Siegler is professor of religious studies at the College of Charleston.

目录
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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

评论 ······

一群神神叨叨的外国人到中国神游来了。

可读性很强，有趣味，前面有点被道教历史绕晕qaq。看似是中西文化的摩擦和冲突，但其实是所有人和文化共同的现代困境。

方法算新，但是三部分的互動有時候真的就流於敘事化。

方法和场景很有意思，把道教的全球化放在美式道教的ontological individualism（个人主义）和中国道教传承的cosmological attunement（与宇宙万物相应）的框架下讨论。最后引出这两种路径各自的困境，“传统”囿于道观政治、经受着传承的衰落和凋零；而美式个人的道教练习则缺乏稳定的根基，类似一种漂泊、表面的现代道教想象。出路-没有写明白。个人觉得最精彩的是书中三位中国…

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