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Society and the supernatural in Song China /

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 wo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davis, Edward L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.