Table of Contents:
  • Shaanbei history, society, and culture
  • Shaanbei popular religious landscape
  • Beliefs and practices : Shaanbei people's religiosity and religious habitus
  • Legends and histories : Heilongdawang and the Heilongdawang temple
  • Provisioning magical efficacy and divine benevolence
  • Modes of social organization and folk event productions
  • Red-hot sociality
  • Temple boss and local elite : the story of Lao Wang
  • Longwanggou and agrarian political culture
  • The local state and the politics of legitimation.