Society and the Supernatural in Song China /
Davis, Edward L.
Society and the Supernatural in Song China / Edward L. Davis. - 1 online resource (368 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Therapeutic Movements in the Song: Texts -- 3. New Therapeutic Movements in the Song: Practitioners -- 4. The Cult of the Black Killer -- 5. The Daoist Ritual Master and Child-Mediums -- 6. Tantric Exorcists and Child-Mediums -- 7. Daoist Priests, Confucian Literati, and Child-Mediums -- 8. Spirit-Possession and the Grateful Dead: Daoist and Buddhist Mortuary Ritual in the Song -- 9. The Syncretic Field of Chinese Religion -- Appendix: Huanglu jiao and Shuilu zhai -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
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Society and the Supernatural in Song China is at once a meticulous examination of spirit possession and exorcism in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and a social history of the full panoply of China's religious practices and practitioners at the moment when she was poised to dominate the world economy. Although the Song dynasty (960-1276) is often identified with the establishment of Confucian orthodoxy, Edward Davis demonstrates the renewed vitality of the dynasty's Taoist, Buddhist, and local religious traditions. He charts the rise of hundreds of new temple-cults and the lineages of clerical exorcists and vernacular priests; the increasingly competitive interaction among all practitioners of therapeutic ritual; and the wide social range of their patrons and clients.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780824823108 9780824864361
10.1515/9780824864361 doi
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
290
Society and the Supernatural in Song China / Edward L. Davis. - 1 online resource (368 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Therapeutic Movements in the Song: Texts -- 3. New Therapeutic Movements in the Song: Practitioners -- 4. The Cult of the Black Killer -- 5. The Daoist Ritual Master and Child-Mediums -- 6. Tantric Exorcists and Child-Mediums -- 7. Daoist Priests, Confucian Literati, and Child-Mediums -- 8. Spirit-Possession and the Grateful Dead: Daoist and Buddhist Mortuary Ritual in the Song -- 9. The Syncretic Field of Chinese Religion -- Appendix: Huanglu jiao and Shuilu zhai -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Society and the Supernatural in Song China is at once a meticulous examination of spirit possession and exorcism in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and a social history of the full panoply of China's religious practices and practitioners at the moment when she was poised to dominate the world economy. Although the Song dynasty (960-1276) is often identified with the establishment of Confucian orthodoxy, Edward Davis demonstrates the renewed vitality of the dynasty's Taoist, Buddhist, and local religious traditions. He charts the rise of hundreds of new temple-cults and the lineages of clerical exorcists and vernacular priests; the increasingly competitive interaction among all practitioners of therapeutic ritual; and the wide social range of their patrons and clients.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780824823108 9780824864361
10.1515/9780824864361 doi
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
290