Daoist ritual, state religion, and popular practice : Zhenwu worship from Song to Ming (960-1644)
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Daoist ritual, state religion, and popular practice : Zhenwu worship from Song to Ming (960-1644)
（Routledge studies in Taoism）
Routledge, 2017, c2011
- : pbk
- Other Title
-
Daoist ritual, state religion, and popular practices : Zhenwu worship from Song to Ming (960-1644)
Available at / 1 libraries
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
"First issued in paperback 2017"--T.p. verso
Chronology: p. [x]
Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-150) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Zhenwu, or the Perfected Warrior, is one of the few Chinese Deities that can rightfully claim a countrywide devotion. Religious specialists, lay devotees, the state machine, and the cultural industry all participated, both collaboratively and competitively, in the evolution of this devotional movement. This book centres on the development and transformation of the godhead of Zhenwu, as well as the devotional movement focused on him. Organised chronologically on the development of the Zhenwu worship in Daoist rituals, state religion, and popular practices, it looks at the changes in the way Zhenwu was perceived, and the historical context in which those changes took place.
The author investigates the complicated means by which various social and political groups contested with each other in appropriating cultural-religious symbols. The question at the core of the book is how, in a given historical context, human agents and social institutions shape the religious world to which they profess devotion. The work offers a holistic approach to religion in a period of Chinese history when central, local, official, clerical and popular power are constantly negotiating and reshaping established values.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. A God in Formation 2. A God in Full: The Song Dynasty 3. A God in Transition 4. A God and his Mountain 5. The Whole and the Parts
by "Nielsen BookData"
