Jean Debernardi, University of Alberta
Department of Anthropology
Professor
Edmonton, Alberta
jean.debernardi@ualberta.ca
Office:
(780) 492-0131
Bio/Research
Since 2002, I have been conducting ethnographic research on religious and cultural pilgrimage to the Daoist temple complex at Wudang Mountain, South-central China. I have also been exploring the modernization of Daoism in both China and Singapore, focusing on travel and religious pilgrimage, digi...
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Bio/Research
Since 2002, I have been conducting ethnographic research on religious and cultural pilgrimage to the Daoist temple complex at Wudang Mountain, South-central China. I have also been exploring the modernization of Daoism in both China and Singapore, focusing on travel and religious pilgrimage, digital technologies, and the use of scholarly publications, museum exhibits, and conferences to promote the religion.
I have explored the history and contemporary practice of Chinese popular religious culture in two books: Rites of Belonging: Memory, Modernity and Identity in a Malaysian Chinese Community (Stanford University Press, 2004), reprinted as Penang: Rites of Belonging in a Malaysian Chinese Community (NUS Press, 2009) and The Way that Lives in the Heart: Chinese Popular Religion and Spirit Mediums in Penang, Malaysia (Stanford University Press, 2006).
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I have explored the history and contemporary practice of Chinese popular religious culture in two books: Rites of Belonging: Memory, Modernity and Identity in a Malaysian Chinese Community (Stanford University Press, 2004), reprinted as Penang: Rites of Belonging in a Malaysian Chinese Community (NUS Press, 2009) and The Way that Lives in the Heart: Chinese Popular Religion and Spirit Mediums in Penang, Malaysia (Stanford University Press, 2006).
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