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

China Quarterly

Volumn , Issue 174, 2003, Pages 373-394

  Liu, Tik sang ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL INFLUENCE; RELIGION; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

CHINA; HONG KONG; MACAU;

EID: 0042067875     PISSN: 03057410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0009443903000238     Document Type: Article

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