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Book SynopsisIn 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 econom
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*ILLUSTRATIONS, pg. viii*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xi*CHAPTER I. Introduction, pg. 3*CHAPTER II. Lay Choices, pg. 29*CHAPTER III. Understanding the Gods, pg. 48*CHAPTER IV. The Granting of Titles, pg. 79*CHAPTER V. Popular Deities in Huzhou, pg. 105*CHAPTER VI. The Rise of Regional Cults, pg. 128*CHAPTER VII. Conclusion, pg. 160*Appendix I: Comparison of The Record of the Listener and a Temple Inscription Recording the Same Miracle, pg. 167*Appendix II: Selected Translations from The Record of the Listener, pg. 171*APPENDIX III. Tables, pg. 176*GLOSSARY, pg. 201*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 217*INDEX TO TEMPLE INSCRIPTIONS, pg. 243*INDEX, pg. 247
