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Society and the Supernatural in Song China / Edward L. Davis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2001]Copyright date: ©2001Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824823108
  • 9780824864361
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 290
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)