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

ISBN-13: 9781138086494 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 164 str.

Shin-Yi Chao

Opis

This book focuses on one of the few Chinese deities that can rightfully claim a countrywide devotion, Zhenwu or the Perfected Warrior. Investigating the complicated means by which various social and political groups contested with each other in appropriating cultural-religious symbols, it 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.