In Search of Personal Welfare: A View of Ancient Chinese ReligionSUNY Press, 1998 M01 1 - 331 páginas This book is the first major reassessment of ancient Chinese religion to appear in recent years. It provides a historical investigation of broadly shared religious beliefs and goals in ancient China from the earliest period to the end of the Han Dynasty. The author makes use of recently acquired archeological data, traditional texts, and modern scholarly work from China, Japan, and the West. The overall concern of this book is to try to reach the religious mentality of the ancient Chinese in the context of personal and daily experiences. Poo deals with such problems as the definition of religion, the popular/elite controversy in methodology, and the use of "elite" documents in the study of ordinary life. |
Contenido
Introduction | 1 |
Working Definitions | 5 |
The PopularReligion Paradigm in Earlier Research and Theory | 7 |
The Sources | 14 |
Roots of a Religion of Personal Welfare | 17 |
The Religion of the Shang People | 23 |
The Religion of the Chou People | 29 |
Personal Welfare in the Context of Mantic Technique | 41 |
Religious Activities Related to the Agricultural Cycle | 124 |
Religious Activities Related to the Life Cycle | 135 |
Religious Activities in Everyday Life | 143 |
Local Cults | 146 |
Omens and Portents | 152 |
Immortality Soul and the Netherworld | 157 |
Further Development of the Idea of the Netherworld | 165 |
Social Change the Development of Burial Styles and the Idea of the Netherworld | 176 |
Omens | 44 |
Divination | 48 |
Witchcraft and Exorcism | 52 |
Souls Spirits and the Abode of the Dead | 62 |
Summary | 66 |
Newly Discovered Daybooks and Everyday Religion | 69 |
Elements of Religion in the Classic of Mountains and Seas | 92 |
Dealing with Domestic and Foreign Environments | 99 |
Emperors Courtiers and the Development of Official Cults | 103 |
The Establishment of the Official Cult of the Chin Empire | 104 |
The Establishment of the Han Official Cult | 107 |
Personal Factors and Official Religion | 114 |
Reassessing Han Official Religion | 117 |
ConclusionHappiness | 120 |
Beliefs and Practices in Everyday Life of the Han Dynasty | 123 |
Popular Religiosity and Its Critics | 179 |
Intellectuals as Critics of Popular Religion and Local Cults | 185 |
Intellectuals as Reformers of Popular Religion | 192 |
Intellectuals as Participants in Popular Religion | 194 |
Conclusion | 205 |
The Nature of ExtraHuman Powers | 206 |
Belief in a Correlative Cosmological Order | 209 |
Death and the Netherworld | 210 |
Apothesis | 212 |
Piety and Happiness | 213 |
Epilogue | 216 |
Notes | 219 |
Bibliography | 275 |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todas
In Search of Personal Welfare: A View of Ancient Chinese Religion Mu-chou Poo Vista previa limitada - 1998 |
In Search of Personal Welfare: A View of Ancient Chinese Religion Mu-chou Poo,Muzhou Pu Vista previa limitada - 1998 |
Términos y frases comunes
ancestors ancient China auspicious Bodde Book of Rites bronze burial Ch'en Ch'i Ch'in Ch'u ch'un-ch'iu Chapter Chinese religion Chou period Chung-hua Chung-kuo Classic of Mountains Commentary of Tso common concept concerning Confucian court culture daybooks dead death deities demons discussion divination dragon dynasty earth Eastern Chou Eastern Han elite Emperor everyday example exorcistic funerary ghosts and spirits gods Han dynasty Han-mu Han-shu heaven Hou-Han-shu Hsü Huang-ti human idea immortals intellectuals Jao Tsung-i jih-shu K. C. Chang k'o-hsüeh-yüan Legge Li-chi Liu P'an-sui Loewe Ma-wang-tui magic mandate of heaven mentioned Monthly Ordinances Mountains and Seas nature netherworld official cults official religion Peking po-wu-kuan political popular religion portents religious activities religious mentality ritual sacrifice scholars shamans Shang shen Shih-chi shrines Shui-hu-ti social society Taipei Taoist tion tomb tradition Tso-chuan various Wang Ch'ung Wang Mang Warring States period wen-wu worship wu-shamans Yellow Emperor yin-yang Yüan K'o
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Religion and Chinese Society: Taoism and local religion in modern China John Lagerwey Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
Cultus und Heilsversprechen: eine Theorie der Religionen Martin Riesebrodt Vista previa limitada - 2007 |