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A Nameless but Active Religion: An Anthropologist's View of Local Religion in Hong Kong and Macau

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2003

Tik-sang Liu
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Abstract

Tik-sang Liu examines local religious practices in Hong Kong and Macau. He states that these constitute the foundation of local social organizations; they are the means with which local society is organized, local people are mobilized, communal activities are co-ordinated and people are prepared for their various stages in life.

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Research Article
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The China Quarterly , Volume 174 , June 2003 , pp. 373 - 394
Copyright
© The China Quarterly, 2003

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Footnotes

I would like to thank Kenneth Dean, Paul R. Katz and Daniel L. Overmyer for helpful comments on this article. I am particularly grateful to James L. Watson and Rubie S. Watson for their teaching and unfailing support. Fieldwork in Hong Kong's New Territories in 1990–91 was supported by a grant from the Joint Committee on Chinese Studies of the American Council of Learned Society and the Social Science Research Council. Further research in Macau and Hong Kong's New Territories in 2001 was made possible by a Direct Allocation Grant from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.