Schedule:
2-22 Week 1:
Introduction

3-1 Week 2: Gods, Ghosts, Ancestors, and Soldiers (1)
Wolf, Arthur
1974 Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors. In Religion and Ritual in Chinese Society. Arthur P. Wolf ed., pp. 131-182. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

3-8 Week 3: Gods, Ghosts, Ancestors, and Soldiers (2)
Feuchtwang, Stephan
2001 The Annual Apocalypse. In Popular Religion in China: The Imperial Metaphor. Pp. 39-62. London: Routledge Curzon.

3-15 Week 4: 乩童、法師、道士、與通靈人(1)
Schipper, Kristofer
1993 Ritual. In The Taoist Body, chpt. 5 (Pp. 72-99). Berkeley: University of California Press.
Saso, Michael
1970 Red-head and Black-head: The Classification of the Taoists of Taiwan According to the Documents of the 61st Heavenly Master. Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica 30: 69-81.

3-22 Week 5: 乩童、法師、道士、與通靈人(2)
Schipper, Kristofer
1985 Vernacular and Classical Ritual in Taoism. Journal of Asian Studies 45(1): 21-57.
Schipper, Kristofer
1993 The Masters of the Gods. In The Taoist Body, chpt. 4 (Pp. 44-71). Berkeley: University of California Press.

3-29 Week 6: 煞與送煞
Watson, James L.
1988 The Structure of Chinese Funerary Rites: Elementary Forms, Ritual Sequence, and the Primacy of Performance. In Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China. James L. Watson and Evelyn S. Rawski, eds., pp. 1-19. Berkeley: University of California Press.

4-5 Week 7: National holiday

4-12 Week 8: 觀落陰與牽亡魂
Ahern, Emily M.
1973 The Underworld. In The Cult of the Dead in a Chinese Village. Chpt. 13 (Pp. 220-244). Stanford: Stanford University Press.

4-19 Week 9: Fengshui 風水
Freedman, Maurice
1966 Geomancy and Ancestor Worship. In Chinese Lineage and Society: Fukien and Kwangtung. Chpt. 5. London: The Athlone Press.

4-26 Week 10: 冥婚與嬰靈
Jordan, David K.
1972 The Family Ghosts. In Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors: Folk Religion in a Chinese Village. Chpt. 8. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Moskowitz, Marc L.
2001 The Haunting Fetus. In The Haunting Fetus: Abortion, Sexuality, and the Spirit World in Taiwan. Chpt. 5. Honolulu: The University of Hawai’i Press.

5-3 Week 11: 媽祖與進香
Sangren, P. Steven
2000 History and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy: The Mazu Cult of Taiwan. In Chinese Sociologics: An Anthropological Account of the Role of Alienation in Social Reproduction. Chpt. 3. London: The Athlone Press.
2000 Power and Transcendence in the Mazu Pilgrimages of Taiwan. In Chinese Sociologics: An Anthropological Account of the Role of Alienation in Social Reproduction. Chpt. 5. London: The Athlone Press.

5-10 Week 12: 王爺與燒王船
Ahern, Emily Martin
1981 Ritual as a Learning Game. In Chinese Ritual and Politics. Chpt. 7 (Pp. 92-108). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

5-17 Week 13: 神話
Sangren, P. Steven
1996 Myths, Gods, and Family Relations. In Unruly Gods: Divinity and Society in China. Meir Shahar and Robert P. Weller, eds. Pp. 150-183. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

5-24 Week 14: Superscribing Symbols
Duara, Prasenjit
1988 Superscribing Symbols: The Myth of Guandi, Chinese God of War. The Journal of Asian Studies 47(4): 778-795.

5-31 Week 15: Standardization
Watson, James L.
1985 Standardizing the Gods: The Promotion of T’ien Hou (“Empress of Heaven”) Along the South China Cpast, 960-1960. In Popular Culture in Late Imperial China. David Johnson, Andrew J. Nathan, and Evelyn S. Rawski, eds. PP. 292-324. Berkeley: University of California Press.

6-7 Week 16: 新興教派：會靈山
TBA

6-14 Week 17: 普度與超度
Weller, Robert P.
1987 Specialist Ghosts: In Unities and Diversities in Chinese Religion. Chpt. 4. London: Macmillan.