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Unruly Gods: Divinity and Society in China - Hardcover

 
9780824817244: Unruly Gods: Divinity and Society in China
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0824817249 ISBN 13: 9780824817244
Verlag: University of Hawai'i Press, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

The first study in English to offer a systematic introduction to the Chinese pantheon of divinities. It challenges received wisdom about Chinese popular religion, which, until now, presented all Chinese deities as mere functionaries and bureaucrats. The essays in this volume eloquently document the existence of other metaphors that allowed Chinese gods to challenge the traditional power structures and traditional mores of Chinese society. The authors draw on a variety of disciplines and methodologies to throw light on various aspects of the Chinese supernatural. The gallery of gods and goddesses surveyed demonstrates that these deities did not reflect China's socio-political order but rather expressed and negotiated tensions within it. In addition to reflecting the existing order, Chinese gods shaped it, transformed it, and compensated for it, and, as such, their work offers fresh perspectives on the relations between divinity and society in China.

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Meir Shahar is associate professor in the Department of East Asian Studies, Tel Aviv University.

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Unruly Gods: Divinity and Society in China is the first study in English to offer a systematic introduction to the Chinese pantheon of divinities. Until now, Chinese deities have often been presented as mere functionaries and bureaucrats. The essays in this volume eloquently document the existence of other images that allowed Chinese gods to challenge the prevailing power structures and traditional mores of Chinese society. Here are deities who kill their parents, who refuse to marry, who depose their predecessors, who demand cigarettes instead of incense - in short, who challenge all preconceptions about Chinese divinity. The authors draw on a variety of disciplines (history, anthropology, literary studies) and methodologies to throw light on various aspects of the Chinese supernatural. In addition to reflecting the existing order, Chinese gods shaped it, transformed it, and compensated for it, and, as such, this study offers fresh perspectives on the relations between divinity and society in China.

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Verlag
University of Hawai'i Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0824817249
ISBN 13 
9780824817244
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
290
Herausgeber
Shahar Meir, Weller Robert P.
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