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Unruly gods : divinity and society in China /
The first study in English to offer a systematic introduction to the Chinese pantheon of divinities. It challenges received wisdom about Chinese popular religion, which, until now, presented all Chinese deities as mere functionaries and bureaucrats. The essays in this volume eloquently document the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiì Press,
©1996.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : gods and society in China / Meir Shahar and Robert P. Weller
- Personal relations and bureaucratic hierarchy in Chinese religion : evidence from the Song dynasty / Robert Hymes
- Enlightened alchemist or immoral immortal? The growth of Lü Dongbin's cult in late imperial China / Paul R. Katz
- The Lady Linshui : how a woman became a goddess / Brigitte Baptandier
- Myths, gods, and family relations / P. Steven Sangren
- Vernacular fiction and the transmission of gods' cults in late Imperial China / Meir Shahar
- Transmission in popular religion : the Jiajiang festival troupe of Southern Taiwan / Donald S. Sutton
- Matricidal magistrates and gambling gods : weak states and strong spirits in China / Robert P. Weller.