Format:
Online-Ressource (viii, 237 p)
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22 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9789888028030
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9789888028047
Series Statement:
Understanding China
Content:
Over the last 40 years, our vision of Chinese culture and history has been transformed by the discovery of the role of religion in Chinese state-making and in local society. The Daoist religion, in particular, long despised as ""superstitious,"" has recovered its place as ""the native higher religion."" But while the Chinese state tried from the fifth century on to construct an orthodoxy based on Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism, local society everywhere carved out for itself its own geomantically defined space and organized itself around local festivals in honor of gods of its own choosing-
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 - A Brief History of the Pantheon: Ancestors and Gods in State and Local Religion and Politics; 2 - Daoist Ritual in Social and Historical Perspective; 3 - Festivals in Southeastern China; 4 - On the Rational Character of Local Religion; Concluding Reflections; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
9789882205512
Additional Edition:
Print version China: A Religious State
Language:
English
