Anthropologist David Jordan and Daniel Overmyer, a historian of religions, present a joint analysis of the most important group of sectarian religious societies in contemporary Taiwan: those that engage in automatic writing seances, or worship by means of the phoenix" writing implement.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Flying Phoenix: Aspects of Chinese Sectarianism in Taiwan (Princeton Legacy Library)

Politics & Social Sciences

Overmyer, Daniel L.

Jordan, David K.

Social Sciences

Princeton University Press

<p>Esperanto is an international language, created to facilitate communication amongst people from different countries. It was created in 1887 by Dr. L. L. Zamenhof to be a second language that would allow people who speak different native languages to communicate, yet at the same time to retain their own languages and cultural identities. Zamenhof grew up in Bialystok, Poland, where different peoples were not separated by a geographical barrier, but a cultural and language barrier. While he realized that a common language would not end the cultural barrier, it would enable ordinary people, not politicians, to have cross national conversations. To this end, he created Esperanto, a language that would be easy for most people to learn, due to it's logical, regular design. This book is directed to Americans who have completed a basic course in Esperanto, either with a teacher or alone, and who seek a moderately complete Esperanto reference grammar in English with many examples. The book consists of two parts. Part I is the reference grammar. Part II contains an alphabetical list of words that seem - to the author - to pose special challenge to the English speaker.</p>

Being Colloquial in Esperanto: A Reference Guide for Americans

Reference

Univ Pr of Amer

Being Colloquial in Esperanto

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