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Daoist Ritual, State Religion, and Popular Practices: Zhenwu Worship from Song to Ming (960-1644) - Rilegato

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Chao, Shin-Yi

 
9780415780667: Daoist Ritual, State Religion, and Popular Practices: Zhenwu Worship from Song to Ming (960-1644)
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ISBN 10: 0415780667 ISBN 13: 9780415780667
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2011

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Zhenwu, or the Perfected Warrior, is one of the few Chinese Deities that can rightfully claim a countrywide devotion. Religious specialists, lay devotees, the state machine, and the cultural industry all participated, both collaboratively and competitively, in the evolution of this devotional movement. This book centres on the development and transformation of the godhead of Zhenwu, as well as the devotional movement focused on him. Organised chronologically on the development of the Zhenwu worship in Daoist rituals, state religion, and popular practices, it looks at the changes in the way Zhenwu was perceived, and the historical context in which those changes took place.

The author investigates the complicated means by which various social and political groups contested with each other in appropriating cultural-religious symbols. The question at the core of the book is how, in a given historical context, human agents and social institutions shape the religious world to which they profess devotion. The work offers a holistic approach to religion in a period of Chinese history when central, local, official, clerical and popular power are constantly negotiating and reshaping established values.

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Shin-yi Chao is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Rutgers University, US. Her research focuses on Daoism and Chinese popular religion in pre-modern and modern times.

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2011
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0415780667
ISBN 13 
9780415780667
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
164
Contatto del produttore
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