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Author : Liz Hingley
Publisher : Gost Books
ISBN 13 : 9781910401385
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sacred Shanghai written by Liz Hingley and published by Gost Books. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Shanghai explores the spaces, rituals and communities that form the spiritual fabric of China's largest city.
Author : Benoît Vermander
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295741694
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)
Download or read book Shanghai Sacred written by Benoît Vermander and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2018-04-15 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shanghai, a dynamic world metropolis, is home to a multitude of religions, from Buddhism and Islam, to Christianity and Baha’ism, to Hinduism and Daoism, and many more. In this city of 24 million inhabitants, new religious groups and older faiths together claim and reclaim spiritual space. Shanghai Sacred explores the spaces, rituals, and daily practices that make up the religious landscape of the city, offering a new paradigm for the study of Chinese spirituality that reflects the global trends shaping Chinese culture and civil society. Based on years of fieldwork, incorporating both comparative and methodological perspectives, Shanghai Sacred demonstrates how religions are lived, constructed, and thus inscribed into the social imaginary of the metropolis. Evocative photographs by Liz Hingley enrich and interact with the narrative, making the book an innovative contribution to religious visual ethnography.
Author : Susan Naquin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520075672
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pilgrims and Sacred Sites in China written by Susan Naquin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until now, China has been scarcely represented in the burgeoning comparative literature on pilgrimage. This volume remedies that omission, discussing the interaction between pilgrims and sacred sites from the tenth century to the present. From the perspectives of literature, art, history, religion, politics, and anthropology, the essays focus on China's most famous pilgrimage mountains as well as lesser known sites.
Author : Robert Coventry Forsyth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)
Download or read book Shantung, the Sacred Province of China, in Some of Its Aspects written by Robert Coventry Forsyth and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Clart
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501500198
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)
Download or read book Religious Publishing and Print Culture in Modern China written by Philip Clart and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research into the print culture of late-Qing and Republican China has revealed a vibrant world of print media. Recent studies have also shown that far from being marginalized, religion in modern China enjoyed widespread popularity and in many cases expanded its field of activity. This book explores how religious ideas and practices in modern China were transformed as a result of their engagement with modern print culture.
Author : David A. Palmer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199731381
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)
Download or read book Chinese Religious Life written by David A. Palmer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering an introduction to religion in contemporary China, the essays in this volume consider many diverse themes including religion in urban, rural and ethnic minority settings and the historical, sociological, economic and political aspects of religion on the country as a whole.
Author : Vincent Goossaert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226304167
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Religious Question in Modern China written by Vincent Goossaert and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent events—from strife in Tibet and the rapid growth of Christianity in China to the spectacular expansion of Chinese Buddhist organizations around the globe—vividly demonstrate that one cannot understand the modern Chinese world without attending closely to the question of religion. The Religious Question in Modern China highlights parallels and contrasts between historical events, political regimes, and cultural movements to explore how religion has challenged and responded to secular Chinese modernity, from 1898 to the present. Vincent Goossaert and David A. Palmer piece together the puzzle of religion in China not by looking separately at different religions in different contexts, but by writing a unified story of how religion has shaped, and in turn been shaped by, modern Chinese society. From Chinese medicine and the martial arts to communal temple cults and revivalist redemptive societies, the authors demonstrate that from the nineteenth century onward, as the Chinese state shifted, the religious landscape consistently resurfaced in a bewildering variety of old and new forms. The Religious Question in Modern China integrates historical, anthropological, and sociological perspectives in a comprehensive overview of China’s religious history that is certain to become an indispensible reference for specialists and students alike.
Author : Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739180606
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)
Download or read book Chinese Religious Art written by Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese Religious Art is a broad survey of the origins and development of the various forms of artistic expression of Chinese religions. The study begins with an overview of ancient archaeology in order to identify nascent religious ideologies in various Neolithic Cultures and early Chinese historical eras including the Shang dynasty (1300-1050 BCE) and Zhou Dynasty(1000-221 BCE) up until the era of the First Emperor (221-210 BCE) Part Two treats Confucianism as a religious tradition examining its scriptures, images, temples and rituals. Adopted as the state ideology in the Han dynasty, Confucian ideas permeated society for over two thousand years. Filial piety, ethical behavior and other principles shaped the pictorial arts. Part Three considers the various schools of Daoist belief and their expression in art. The ideas of a utopian society and the pursuit of immortality characterize this religion from its earliest phase. Daoism has an elaborate pantheon and ritualistic art, as well as a secular tradition best expressed in monochrome ink painting. Part Four covers the development of Buddhist art beginning with its entry into China in the second century. Its monuments—comprised largely of cave temples carved high in the mountains along the frontiers of China and large metropolitan temples —provide evidence of its evolution including the adoption of savior cults of the Buddha of the Western Paradise, the Buddha of the Future, the rise of Ch’an (Zen) and esoteric Buddhism. In their development, these various religious traditions interacted, sharing art, architecture, iconography and rituals. By the twelfth century a stage of syncretism merged all three traditions into a popular religion. All the religions are reviving after their extirpation during the Cultural Revolution. Using historical records and artistic evidence, much of which has not been published, this study examines their individual and shared manner of worshipping the divine forces.
Author : Mu Peng
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000727068
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)
Download or read book Religion and Religious Practices in Rural China written by Mu Peng and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how, unlike in the West, the daily religious life of most Chinese people spreads without institutional propagation. Based upon more than a decade of field research in rural China, the book demonstrates the decisive role of rites of passage and yearly festival rituals held in every household in shaping people’s religious dispositions. It focuses on the family, the unit most central to Chinese culture and society, and reveals the repertoire embodied in daily life in a world envisioned as comprising both the “yin” world of ancestors, spirits, and ghosts, and the “yang” world of the living. It discusses especially the concept of bai, which refers to both concrete bodily movements that express respect and awe, such as bowing, kneeling, or holding up ritual offerings, and to people’s religious inclinations and dispositions, which indicate that they are aware of a spiritual realm that is separate from yet close to the world of the living. Overall, the book shows that the daily practices of religion are not a separate sphere, but rather belief and ritual integrated into a way of dwelling in a world envisaged as consisting of both the “yin” and the “yang” worlds that regularly communicate with each other.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004456740
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book Shades of Gray in the Changing Religious Markets of China written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of studies of various religious groups in the changing religious markets of China. These ethnographic studies demonstrate many shades of gray in the religious market and fluidity across the red, black, and gray markets.
