Daoist Ritual, State Religion, and Popular Practices : Zhenwu Worship from Song to Ming (960-1644)

ISBN-13: 9780415780667 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 176 str.

Shin-Yi Chao

Opis

Investigating the complicated means by which various social and political groups contested with each other in appropriating cultural-religious symbols, this book shows how in a given historical context human agents and social institutions shape the religious world.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. A God in Formation 2. A God in Full: The Song Dynasty 3. A God in Transition 4. A God and his Mountain 5. The Whole and the Parts

O autorze

Shin-yi Chao is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Rutgers University, US. Her research focuses on Daoism and Chinese popular religion in pre-modern and modern times.