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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaii Press,
[2014]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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


