Alawon gwerin Môn: towards a reception history by Cusworth, A

The Secularization of Religious Figures: A Study of Mahoraga in the Song Dynasty (960–1279) by Chen Fan, Yanghuan Long

“…We believe that the population crisis and national population policies in the Song Dynasty stimulated Chinese people’s longing for procreation and this desire was responded to by the secularization and popularization of Buddhism in China, together with the increased prosperity of citizen culture, which ultimately promoted the popularity of Mahoraga in Song society.…”
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Lace songs and culture wars: a nineteenth-century Flemish village soap opera by Hopkin, D