The Cult Of The Fox
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The Cult Of The Fox
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Author : Xiaofei Kang
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2006
The Cult Of The Fox written by Xiaofei Kang and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
For more than five centuries the shamanistic fox cult has attracted large portions of the Chinese population and appealed to a wide range of social classes. Deemed illicit by imperial rulers and clerics and officially banned by republican and communist leaders, the fox cult has managed to survive and flourish in individual homes and community shrines throughout northern China. In this new work, the first to examine the fox cult as a vibrant popular religion, Xiaofei Kang explores the manifold meanings of the fox spirit in Chinese society. Kang describes various cult practices, activities of worship, and the exorcising of fox spirits to reveal how the Chinese people constructed their cultural and social values outside the gaze of offical power and morality.
Power On The Margins
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Author : Xiaofei Kang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Power On The Margins written by Xiaofei Kang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with categories.
Power On The Margins
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Author : Xiaofei Kang (Ph.D.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Power On The Margins written by Xiaofei Kang (Ph.D.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with categories.
In The Name Of Buddha
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Author : Xiaofei Kang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
In The Name Of Buddha written by Xiaofei Kang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with categories.
The White Fox
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Author : James Bartholomeusz
language : en
Publisher: Medallion Media Group
Release Date : 2012-03-01
The White Fox written by James Bartholomeusz and has been published by Medallion Media Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Jack Lawson lives an average and ordinary life in a typical southern English town, until the day a white fox introduces himself as Jack's guardian spirit and gives him a mysterious talisman. Jack's life continues to spin out of control when his friend Alex, after warning that the town is in grave danger from demons controlled by the Cult of Dionysus, is kidnapped by the cult. Enlisting the help of his friend Lucy, Jack embarks on a journey unlike one he could have ever imagined.
Fourth Day
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Author : Zoe Sharp
language : en
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Release Date : 2011-03-07
Fourth Day written by Zoe Sharp and has been published by Allison & Busby this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-07 with Fiction categories.
The cult calling itself Fourth Day is well-funded and fiercely guards its privacy. Five years ago Thomas Witney went in to try and get evidence that the cult’s charismatic leader, Randall Bane, was responsible for the death of Witney’s son. Witney never came out. Now, ex-Special Forces soldier turned bodyguard, Charlie Fox, agrees to go undercover into Fourth Day’s California stronghold. A fast covert op – no real danger for someone with her mindset and training. But Charlie is not prepared for the lure of Randall Bane, or how easily he will pinpoint her weaknesses...
The Fox Spirit The Stone Maiden And Other Transgender Histories From Late Imperial China
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Author : Matthew H. Sommer
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2024-03-19
The Fox Spirit The Stone Maiden And Other Transgender Histories From Late Imperial China written by Matthew H. Sommer and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-19 with History categories.
In imperial China, people moved away from the gender they were assigned at birth in different ways and for many reasons. Eunuchs, boy actresses, and clergy left behind normative gender roles defined by family and procreation. “Stone maidens”—women deemed physically incapable of vaginal intercourse—might depart from families or marriages to become Buddhist or Daoist nuns. Anatomical males who presented as women sometimes took a conventionally female occupation such as midwife, faith healer, or even medium to a fox spirit. Yet they were often punished harshly for the crime of “masquerading in women’s attire,” suspected of sexual predation, even when they had lived peacefully in their communities for many years. Exploring these histories and many more, this book is a groundbreaking study of transgender lives and practices in late imperial China. Through close readings of court cases, as well as Ming and Qing fiction and nineteenth-century newspaper accounts, Matthew H. Sommer examines the social, legal, and cultural histories of gender crossing. He considers a range of transgender experiences, illuminating how certain forms of gender transgression were sanctioned in particular social contexts and penalized in others. Sommer scrutinizes the ways Qing legal authorities and literati writers represented and understood gender-nonconforming people and practices, contrasting official ideology with popular mentalities. An unprecedented account of China’s transgender histories, this book also sheds new light on a range of themes in Ming and Qing law, religion, medicine, literature, and culture.
Fox Magic
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Author : Jason Read
language : en
Publisher: Mandrake of Oxford
Release Date : 2021-08
Fox Magic written by Jason Read and has been published by Mandrake of Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08 with categories.
According to ancient legends, thousands of years ago a mysterious being known as the Nine Tail Fox taught her devotees the secrets of witchcraft and alchemy. This witch cult survives to this day and is practiced in many Chinese and Japanese communities in relative secrecy. From her origins with the ancient Wu Shamans and the Tantric dakinis, the author explores this unique and often overlooked form of witchcraft. Learn the history of the Fox Immortal and her influence on Asian politics and history. Investigate the Tantric origins of the Fox Goddess. Learn the secret rituals from the Chinese grimoires that invoke the help and aid of the Fox Immortal as a personal magical tutor. Learn the ways of glamour and fascination taught to devotees of the Fox Temple. Investigate the mysterious tantric rites of the Tachikawa Ryu. Investigate the Mysteries of the white branch of death and the red branch of sexuality. Learn some of the many spells used by the Fox cult of witches. --------- This may be a topic wholly new to the average western reader though it will have familiar elements, after all, all true Mysteries in the true sense of the word have a common thread. Some readers may be familiar with the Lady Fox from various pop-cultural references in Japanese anime or Hong Kong movies and even video games. It is Kitsune, the fox spirit of the west that is most accessible to the average western audience. However the cultus of the Fox goes far further back than her appearance in Japan and Korea, her roots seemingly going as far back as the ancient tantric mysteries of India. I am a practitioner in the magical tradition of Taoism and it was in China that I learned the basics of the Fox Fairy as she is sometimes called. However China is a very conservative country and it seems obvious to me that a lot was implied but never spoken of, or perhaps even forgotten. I ventured into the depths of the mysteries of the Fox Lady and the path took me in many directions and through many synchronicities on that journey. While I preserve the fox tradition as passed to me, I do add some further material, also based on traditions that connect with her 'sadhana' [glossary]. I expect there will be an outcry from some Taoist and Shingon purists since in a sense I am resurrecting the heterodox Shingon cult of the Tachikawa. The logic of this decision will become clear. I am certain this is the correct move. In this way, we rise above the apparent shallowness of the Fox Temple as seen in contemporary Hong Kong for example, where the Fox Fairy has merely become a means to become a more attractive person in the world of film and music. In this book, I am giving the keys to true gnosis of the Path of the Nine-Tailed Fox.
The Fox And Dr Shimamura
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Author : Christine Wunnicke
language : en
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 2019-04-30
The Fox And Dr Shimamura written by Christine Wunnicke and has been published by New Directions Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-30 with Fiction categories.
A delicious mix of East and West, of wonder and irony, The Fox and Dr. Shimamura is a most curious novel The Fox and Dr. Shimamura toothsomely encompasses East and West, memory and reality, fox-possession myths, and psychiatric mythmaking. As an outstanding young Japanese medical student at the end of the nineteenth century, Dr. Shimamura is sent—to his dismay—to the provinces: he is asked to cure scores of young women afflicted by an epidemic of fox possession. Believing it’s all a hoax, he considers the assignment an insulting joke, until he sees a fox moving under the skin of a young beauty... Next he travels to Europe and works with such luminaries as Charcot, Breuer and Freud—whose methods, Dr. Shimamura concludes, are incompatible with Japanese politeness. The ironic parallels between Charcot’s theories of female hysteria and ancient Japanese fox myths—when it comes to beautiful, writhing young women—are handled with a lightly sardonic touch by Christine Wunnicke, whose flavor-packed, inventive language is a delight.
Wayward Gambler
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Author : Curtis Marshman, II
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2022-08-31
Wayward Gambler written by Curtis Marshman, II and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-31 with categories.
Felonious Fox is a traveling gambler who will do anything and risk everything to be the greatest guitar player the world has ever seen. While spreading the word about his talents, he meets an owl who makes him an offer that changes everything. Join Felonious on his adventure as he meets friends and makes enemies while changing his destiny forever. Illustrated with twenty-four drawings by the author.