Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 246 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783447390835
Series Statement:
Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes Band 119
Content:
Cover -- Title Pages -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations -- Note to the Reader -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Northern Priests -- Religious Authority and the Field of Priests -- Taoism and Religion in Taiwan -- Fieldwork and the Collection of Data -- Gods, Ghosts, and Priests -- The Religious Context -- Religious Specialists and Northern Priests -- Offerings, Exorcisms, and Minor Rites -- The Meaning of Cheng-it -- Tō and Hoat: A First Comparison -- Language -- Pantheon -- Transmission -- Meditation and Trance -- The Hoat Version of "Worshipping the Lord of Heaven" -- The Tō Version of "Worshipping the Lord of Heaven" -- Tō and Hoat During Ceremonies -- A History of the Northern Priests -- Traditions and Practice During the Qing -- The Japanese Period -- The First Decades -- The Final Years -- Post-war Developments -- The Celestial Master and the Northern Priests -- From Healing to Offering -- A New Identity? -- Work and Training -- Altars -- Ceremonies -- The Formation of Groups -- The Transmission of Knowledge -- Training in Practice -- Competency -- Authority and Ritual Change: The Chio of the Northern Priests -- The "Original" Chio of the Northern Priests -- The Three-day Chio -- The Five-day Chio -- Adding Scriptures -- Adding a Rite: "Ascending the Platform" -- The "Audiences" and Zhang Enpu's Text -- "Ascending the Platform" in Practice -- Authority and Correct Practice -- Authority and Efficacy: "Rites that Work" and the Toa-po͘-un -- Efficacy and Ritual Healing -- The Toa-po͘-un and Its Program -- The Mythical World and Healing Efficacy -- Case 1: The Old Man and the Talismans -- Case 2: Mr. Tan and the Mouse -- Case 3: Ms. Kho͘ and Family -- Case 4: A Ceremony for a Priest -- Case 5: A Wrong Diagnosis -- Efficacy and Authority -- The Organization of Ceremonies and the Field of Priests.
Note:
Dissertation National Taiwan University 2017
,
Acknowledgements: "This book is a revised version of my 2017 PhD dissertation ..."
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783447115421
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Menheere, Yves The way and its powers Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020 ISBN 9783447115421
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3447115424
Language:
English
Subjects:
Theology
Keywords:
Taiwan
;
Taoismus
;
Priester
;
Ritus
;
Autorität
;
Ethnologie
;
Taiwan
;
Volkskunde
;
Religionsausübung
;
Taoismus
;
Hochschulschrift
Author information:
Menheere, Yves
