Changing Gods in Medieval China, 1127-1276 (eBook)

Valerie Hansen (Autor)

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2014
270 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6043-2 (ISBN)

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In her study of medieval Chinese lay practices and beliefs, Valerie Hansen argues that social and economic developments underlay religious changes in the Southern Song. Unfamiliar with the contents of Buddhist and Daoist texts, the common people hired the practitioner or prayed to the god they thought could cure the ill or bring rain. As the economy rapidly developed, the gods, like the people who worshiped them, diversified: their realm of influence expanded as some gods began to deal on the national grain market and others advised their followers on business transactions. In order to trace this evolution, the author draws information from temple inscriptions, literary notes, the administrative law code, and local histories. By contrasting differing rates of religious change in the lowland and highland regions of the lower Yangzi valley, Hansen suggests that the commercial and social developments were far less uniform than previously thought. In 1100, nearly all people in South China worshiped gods who had been local residents prior to their deaths. The increasing mobility of cultivators in the lowland, rice-growing regions resulted in the adoption of gods from other places. Cults in the isolated mountain areas showed considerably less change.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: Ancestral shrine • ancient China • Buddhism • buddhist texts • Champa rice • Changshan • Changxing County • changzhou • Chen dynasty • Chengdu • Cheng Hao • China • Chinese Buddhism • Chinese Culture • Chinese literature • Chinese name • Chinese temple • City God (China) • classical chinese • Commandery (China) • Confucianism • Confucius • County magistrate • deity • Door god • dragon king • Dunhuang • Emperor Lizong • Emperor Ningzong • Fangfeng • Fang La • Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period • Fuzhou • Ganzhou • Guanyin • Hangzhou • Han Yu • Hubei • Huizhou • Huzhou • Imperial examination • Jiangxi • Jiangyin • Jiaqing Emperor • Jia (vessel) • Jurchen people • Kaifeng • lantern festival • Liu Yizhi • Lotus Sutra • Lujiang County • Lu Jiuyuan • Mazu (goddess) • Mencius • Nanchang County • Neo-Confucianism • Ningbo • Pingwu County • Qianlong emperor • Qing Dynasty • Quanzhou • Shandong • Shanxi • Sichuan • Sima Qian • Song dynasty • Sui Dynasty • Sutra • Tai'an County • Taijian • Tang Dynasty • Taoism • Temple name • The Concubine (novel) • three kingdoms • Wenzhou • written chinese • Wu Han (historian) • Wuxi • Wuxi County • wu zhen • Wu Zixu • Xian (Taoism) • Xu Zizhi Tongjian Changbian • Yellow Emperor • Yixing • Yongle Encyclopedia • Yuan Cai • Yu The Great • Zhao Hong • Zhao Yi • Zhao Yun • Zhejiang • Zhenjiang • Zhenzhou • Zhiyi • Zhongshu Sheng • Zhou Dunyi • Zhu Xi • Zitong County
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6043-1 / 1400860431
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6043-2 / 9781400860432