Animals and plants in Chinese religions and science /

This transdisciplinary study focuses on animals and plants in medieval Chinese religions and science. It examines how medieval religious agents engaged with animals and plants as material culture in the mundane world, and how the spiritual world and natural world mutually enriched each other in the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chen, Huaiyu, 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, 2023.
Temas:
To 1500
Animals > Religious aspects.
Plants > Religious aspects.
Science > China > History > To 1500.
Animaux > Aspect religieux.
Sciences > Chine > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1500.
Animals > Religious aspects
Plants > Religious aspects
Religion
Science
China > Religion > To 1500.
Chine > Religion > Jusqu'à 1500.
China
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Plant Science and Technology in Medieval China; Ordering Plants in the Buddhist World: A Medieval Botanical Taxonomy; Animal Divination and Climate: An Environmental Perspective on the Cult of the Pig; Zoomancy in Medieval China; The Changing Images of Zodiac Animals in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Literature; The Were-Tigers in Medieval China and Its Asian Context; The Animal Turn in Asian Studies and the Asian Turn in the Animal Studies.

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