CUHK Series:The Flying Phoenix: Aspects of Chinese Sectarianism(Chinese Edition) by Daniel L. Overmyer

This book is a comparative study of modern Chinese spirit-writing sects and their traditional forebears. It is a collaboration between an anthropologist, who provided ethnographic field materials, and an historian of religions, who dealt with the text tradition and the texts generated by the groups described in the field materials. The series of case studies shows such groups in more detail than is possible for earlier periods, but also shows them to be in direct lineage with earlier traditions, allowing some tentative hypotheses about the internal dynamics of earlier groups as well.