Description
Book SynopsisThis volume explores practices and experiences in Chinese popular religion. The research adds new materials and new approaches to well-known worships such as the cults of doomsday, underworld, and Lord Guan on the one hand, and draws attention to under-the-radar deities and holy figures hiding in the mountainous countryside or among the urban crowd. While this book centers on Chinese popular religion, it will be of use to non-China scholars in folklore, religious art, and ritual studies as well as China scholars in popular culture from late-medieval to contemporary times.
Table of ContentsIntroduction - Shin-yi Chao
1. Confluence of Fears: The 1923 Doomsday Hysteria in China - FAN Chun-wu ...
2. Temple Inscriptions as “Text Acts” - Adam Yuet Chau
3. Shuilu Rites and the Baodingshan Rock Carvings, Dazu - HOU Chong ..
4. The Worship of the Ten Kings of Purgatory during the Ming-Qing Period - WANG Chien-chuan
5. Feasting with the Great Grandma: The Tea Banquet Ritual Programs and the Worship of the Mother of the Wutong Gods - CHEN Yongchao
6. Knowledge and Ritual: The Dual Nature of the
Scripture Illustrating the Holiness of Emperor Guan (Guandi mingsheng jing) - LI Shih-wei
7. Scorched Head: Daoist Exorcists and their Divine Generals in Jiangnan Lore - Vincent GOOSSAERT
8. Assimilation by Names: A Mechanism of Pantheon Development in Local Religion -WANG Yao
9. Our Lady on the Mountain: The Cult of a Daoist Immortal in Village China - Shin-yi CHAO
10. Stone Inscriptions on Mt. Tai and Contemporary Folk Pilgrimage: A Speculation on “Lefu Yinbei” - YE Tao
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