Zusammenfassung: | From "superstition" to "people's customs" : an ethnographic discovery of key questions in Wenzhou -- The Wenzhou model of rural development in China -- Popular religiosity : deities, spirit mediums, ancestors, ghosts, and Fengshui -- Daoism : ancient gods, boisterous rituals, and hearthside priests -- Buddhist religiosity : the wheel of life, death, and rebirth -- Sprouts of religious civil society : temples, localities, and communities -- The rebirth of the lineage : creative unfolding and multiplicity of forms -- Of mothers, goddesses, and bodhisattvas : patriarchal structures and women's religious agency -- Broadening and pluralizing the modern category of "civil society" : a friendly quarrel with Durkheim -- What's missing in the Wenzhou model? The "ritual economy" and "wasting of wealth" |