Religious Culture and Violence in Traditional China

ISBN-13: 9781108706230 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 75 str.

Barend Ter Haar

Opis

Summarizes the most important aspects of the role of violence in Chinese religious culture.

Spis treści

Preface; 1. Setting the stage; 2. What is violence?; 3. The demonological substrate; 4. Messianic and millenarian traditions; 5. The enforcement of norms and social values; 6. Sacrifice and its counter-discourse; 7. Self-inflicted violence; 8. Intra-religious conflicts; Concluding comments.