台灣民間宗教儀式人類學者的紀錄已經很多,
由於政治體制容許民間宗教的存在,
本書研究台灣民間宗教儀式中的禮斗、叩問、收驚、扶鸞等儀式,
Political scientist and historian William Sewell, who has been strongly influenced by Geertz, argues that the Geertzian view of the biological necessity of culture is a “brilliant piece of materialist argumentation.
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