...Bruce B. Lawrence Shāh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz: Puritanism, Sectarian Polemics, and Jihad . By Saiyid Athar Abbas Rizvi . New Delhi : Munshiram Manoharlal , 1982 . 579 pp. Bibliography, Index. N.p. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984 1984 586 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Shah...

..., and not as a testimony to a disappeared Shi`ite past. Such an understanding transcends the current sectarian and polemical antagonism between Shi`ism and Sunnism, which gained momentum during the last decades due to developments in the Middle East following the Iranian Revolution of 1979. This is a richly documented...

...Chün-fang Yü Precious Volumes: An Introduction to Chinese Sectarian Scriptures from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries . By Daniel L. Overmyer . Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, 49. Cambridge, Mass, and London : Harvard University Press , 1999 . xi, 444 pp. $55.00...

...Michael Adas Caodai Spiritism: A Study of Religion in Vietnamese Society . By Victor L. Oliver . With a Preface by Pierre Rodon . Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1976 . xi, 145 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography. Dutch G68. Peasant Politics and Religious Sectarianism: Peasant and Priest in the Cao...

...Lucien M. Hanks The Buddhist Saints of the Forest and the Cult of Amulets: A Study in Charisma, Hagiography, Sectarianism, and Millennial Buddhism . By Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah , New York : Cambridge University Press , 1984 . xii, 417 pp. Photographs, Notes, Index. $54.50 (cloth); $1795...

...Charles F. Keyes Sangha and State in Burma: A Study of Monastic Sectarianism and Leadership . By E. Michael Mendelson , Edited By John P. Ferguson . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1975 . 400 pp. Appendixes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $19.50 Copyright © Association for Asian...

...Stevan Harrell The Flying Phoenix: Aspects of Chinese Sectarianism in Taiwan . By David K. Jordan and Daniel L. Overmyer . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1986 . xx , 329 pp. $39.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA...

...R. Blake Michael Abstract Vīraśaivism is usually presented as a unified, sectarian, reformation movement founded in the twelfth century by Basava. But within Virasaivism there are actually two, separate denominations— viraktas and gurusthalins . For the former, the beliefs and practices reflected...

.... Individual Communist leaders are almost all identified as petty bourgeois intellectuals, sectarians, deviationists, or factional wreckers. The Communist movement itself is recorded as a “failure” and a “disgrace” by contemporary Kim Il-sŏngists. When praise is meted out, it generally goes to the broader...

... of colonialism itself on the transition to nationalism and modernity, “the unfortunate outcome of sectarian and separatist politics,” and “a tragic accompaniment to the exhilaration and promise of a freedom fought for with courage and valour” (Menon and Bhasin 1998, 3). Copyright © Association for Asian...

... the affectivity of rumor, usually attributed to its spontaneous and anonymous nature, may in fact be boosted by the authority of writing. It suggests that “xeroxlore,” the circulation of written and photocopied rumors, may play an essential role in generating the murky political atmosphere in which sectarian...

... public and private identities in an environment in which multiple sectarian communities jockeyed for patronage. The existence of such multiplicity is what defines the pluralistic character of early modern Hinduism. As Fisher notes in her introduction, “Hinduism has historically exhibited a marked...

... been a breakthrough book. In the late 1980s, German scholar Hubert Seiwert, who had already published a book B O O K R E V I E W S C H I N A 1111 on popular religion in Taiwan, accurately perceived that vast new sources of data on Chinese sectarian popular religion were becoming available on mainland...

..., Koln: E. J . BRILL, 1992. ix, 343 pp. Gld. 170.00; $97.25. The central concern of this book is to demonstrate that there was no unified White Lotus sectarian tradition in China, but rather a variety of different types of lay-oriented groups, only a few of which used the term "White Lotus" in referring...

...: in fairness to Richard Shek, it should be pointed out that his 1980 dissertation uses the term "White Lotus" only once, in reference to my 1976 book, and that he otherwise speaks of "folk sectarianism" and of various groups by their own names. In sectarian "precious volumes" {bao-juan) the term "white lotus...

... to 1700, regional kings and religious sectarian leaders intruded upon the prerogatives of local merchants, and the power of localized merchant assemblies became diffused (Appadurai 1981; Hall 1980). At the same time, however, regional networks of merchants developed affinal and other caste-related...

... in the next century. The weakest part of Dai's otherwise admirable study is the way she portrays the sectarians and rebels. She states that her interest is solely in how the insurgent fighters performed in their struggle against the Qing, not sectarian religion or the causes of the rebellion. Nonetheless...

... of studies on Chinese religion and history. Based on the author s dissertation research, this work combines the anthropologist s understanding of local society with the historian s perspective in social change (p. 2). Making ample use of secondary scholarship on Chinese sectarianism and archival materials...

... The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 120 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S and, conversely, that individual participants' motivations and formulations really lie at the core of sectarian belief. Not only do leaders' visions and formulations make major differences in "official...

... Asia. Messianism is a vital issue in Islamic history because of its role in instigating sectarian con ict. Bashir s book will be of value to scholars of Islamic sectarianism, intellectual history, and Su sm and those interested in the comparative phenomenology of messianism and millenarianism. The book...