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Practicing Scripture : A Lay Buddhist Movement in Late Imperial China /

Practicing Scripture is an original and detailed history of one of the most successful religious movements of late imperial China, the Non-Action Teachings, or Wuweijiao, from its beginnings in the late sixteenth century in the prefectures of southern Zhejiang to the middle of the twentieth century,...

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Autor principal: Ter Haar, Barend (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Patriarch Luo: From Soldier to Religious Teacher
  • 3. Charismatic Teachers against the Current
  • 4. Spirited Debates and Sudden Conversions
  • 5. Religious Beliefs and Ritual Practices
  • 7. The Routinization of Charisma
  • 8. Rediscovering Lay Buddhism
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author