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Chinese Popular Religion in Text and Acts / ed. by Shin-yi Chao.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Religion and Society in Asia ; 12Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource (260 p.)Content type:
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  • 9789048550364
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 200.951 23/eng/20231120
LOC classification:
  • BL1803 .C45 2023
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Text, Acts, and Traditionalization: Performing Chinese Popular Religion -- Section One: Texts And Acts -- 1. Confluence of Fears: The 1923 Doomsday Hysteria in China -- 2. Temple Inscriptions as “Text Acts” -- Section Two: Scriptures and Rituals -- 3. Shuilu Rites and the Baodingshan Rock Carvings of Dazu -- 4. The Worship of the Ten Kings of Purgatory during the Ming-Qing Period -- 5. Feasting with the Great-grandmother: The Tea Banquet Ritual Programs and the Worship of the Mother of Wutong -- 6. Knowledge and Ritual : The Dual Nature of the Scripture Illustrating the Holiness of Emperor Guan (Guandi mingsheng jing) -- Section Three: Saints’ Legends and Gods’ Lore -- 7. Scorched Head: Daoist Exorcists and Their Divine Generals in Jiangnan Lore -- 8. Assimilation by Names: A Mechanism of Pantheon Development in Local Religion -- Section Four: Temple Festivals and Pilgrimages -- 9. Our Lady on the Mountain: The Cult of a Daoist Immortal in Village China -- 10. Stone Inscriptions on Mt. Tai and Contemporary Folk Pilgrimage: A Speculation on “Yinbei” -- Index
Summary: This volume explores practices and experiences in Chinese popular religion. The research adds new materials and new approaches to well-known worships such as the cults of doomsday, underworld, and Lord Guan on the one hand, and draws attention to under-the-radar deities and holy figures hiding in the mountainous countryside or among the urban crowd. While this book centers on Chinese popular religion, it will be of use to non-China scholars in folklore, religious art, and ritual studies as well as China scholars in popular culture from late-medieval to contemporary times.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Text, Acts, and Traditionalization: Performing Chinese Popular Religion -- Section One: Texts And Acts -- 1. Confluence of Fears: The 1923 Doomsday Hysteria in China -- 2. Temple Inscriptions as “Text Acts” -- Section Two: Scriptures and Rituals -- 3. Shuilu Rites and the Baodingshan Rock Carvings of Dazu -- 4. The Worship of the Ten Kings of Purgatory during the Ming-Qing Period -- 5. Feasting with the Great-grandmother: The Tea Banquet Ritual Programs and the Worship of the Mother of Wutong -- 6. Knowledge and Ritual : The Dual Nature of the Scripture Illustrating the Holiness of Emperor Guan (Guandi mingsheng jing) -- Section Three: Saints’ Legends and Gods’ Lore -- 7. Scorched Head: Daoist Exorcists and Their Divine Generals in Jiangnan Lore -- 8. Assimilation by Names: A Mechanism of Pantheon Development in Local Religion -- Section Four: Temple Festivals and Pilgrimages -- 9. Our Lady on the Mountain: The Cult of a Daoist Immortal in Village China -- 10. Stone Inscriptions on Mt. Tai and Contemporary Folk Pilgrimage: A Speculation on “Yinbei” -- Index

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This volume explores practices and experiences in Chinese popular religion. The research adds new materials and new approaches to well-known worships such as the cults of doomsday, underworld, and Lord Guan on the one hand, and draws attention to under-the-radar deities and holy figures hiding in the mountainous countryside or among the urban crowd. While this book centers on Chinese popular religion, it will be of use to non-China scholars in folklore, religious art, and ritual studies as well as China scholars in popular culture from late-medieval to contemporary times.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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