Falun Gong and the Future of China

Falun Gong and the Future of China

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-336

  Ownby, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cultivation; Falun Dafa; Falun Gong; Heterodoxy; Li Hongzhi; Orthodoxy; Popular religion; Qigong; Redemptive societies; White Lotus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908162070     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195329056.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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