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Society and the Supernatural in Song China
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Society and the Supernatural in Song China is at once a meticulous examination of spirit possession and exorcism in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and a social history of the full panoply of China's religious practices and practitioners at the moment when she was poised to dominate the world economy. Although the Song dynasty (960-1276) is often identified with the establishment of Confucian orthodoxy, Edward Davis demonstrates the renewed vitality of the dynasty's Taoist, Buddhist, and local religious traditions. He charts the rise of hundreds of new temple-cults and the lineages of clerical exorcists and vernacular priests; the increasingly competitive interaction among all practitioners of therapeutic ritual; and the wide social range of their patrons and clients.
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“Rapacious imperial officials, the counts, are also damned because they sold their justice and acted 'as agents of the devil'.”
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“In 824 Wetti, a monk at the prominent German monastery of Reichenau, imagined himself guided to an unnamed place to view splendid mountains around which 'flowed a huge river of fire, in which an [immense] multitude of the damned ( damnatorum ) were confined for punishment ( poenaliter ).... And he perceived in innumerable other places people being wracked in torments of different types'.”
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“One scene in this checkered landscape combining both temporary and eternal penalties shows the abbot Waldo showered with filth from a bathhouse. Suffrages from a living associate would close gaps in the dilapidated roof above him, but his stingy peer refuses. Waldo's temporary suffering is thus prolonged, but for his refusal the one who denied help is damned.”
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- Authors
- Davis, E. L.
- Corresponding author
- Davis, Edward L.
- ORCID
- Davis, Edward L.
- Venue
- University of Hawaii Press eBooks
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Published
- 2017-12-18
- OpenAlex
- W4300480949
- Cited by
- 67
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2023: 1 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 1 · 2018: 21 · 2017: 2
- FWCI
- 6.35
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- University of Hawaii Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Chinese history and philosophy
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Indian and Buddhist Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Study and Philosophy of Religion
- Keywords
- Song dynasty, spirit possession, exorcism, religious practice, Daoism, Buddhism, local religious traditions, temple cult, healing rituals, patronage, social history of religion, supernatural
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