Lakewood Playhouse will conclude its 86th season with the regional premiere of a newly revised version of The Spitfire Grill, ...

Donald Niedekker’s “Strange and Perfect Account From the Permafrost” offers an ambitious view of human history and is full of ...

Part Religious, Part Cultural, Part Political Dawn breaks over smooth, windless seas on Mazu's birthday. In Wenxing, at 7 a.m., the entire village is up.

But such canonizations, says Chamberlain, reflected, rather than assured, acceptance into the “nameless, abiding” folk religion of the Chinese people.

Chinese Gods: An introduction to Chinese folk religion, by Jonathan Chamberlain, is published by Blacksmith Books and can be purchased from Amazon here.

Dark Star Pictures has revealed an official trailer for The Severed Sun, a British folk horror from filmmaker Dean Puckett. This premiered at last year's Fantastic Fest in Austin in the fall, and ...

This is what distinguishes Christian worship from worship in other religions: It is not driven by our needs, but it is our response to a good and loving God, the one who first reached out to us.

Some believers actively distance their religion from neo-Völkisch dogma. Neo-Völkisch groups in the U.S. that embrace racial, ethnic and/or cultural essentialism generally identify themselves and ...

When Luigi Mangione was arrested for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson he had in his possession a handwritten document in which he described healthcare corporations as “mafiosa [that] ...

Folk religion is not just a religion in Taiwan; it is part of an accepted worldview. Participating in shamanistic rituals is quite popular in both rural areas and urban centers.

The very existence of a folk religion tradition is anti-imperial court. If the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ever does succeed in annexing Taiwan, the dragon and phoenix imagery in the Donggang ...