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Way and BywayTaoism, Local Religion, and Models of Divinity in Sung and Modern China

Hymes, Robert·2002·University of California Press eBooks
DOI 10.1525/california/9780520207585.001.0001
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Using a combination of newly mined Sung sources and modern ethnography, this book addresses questions that have perplexed China scholars in recent years. Were Chinese gods celestial officials, governing the fate and fortunes of their worshippers as China's own bureaucracy governed their worldly lives? Or were they personal beings, patrons or parents or guardians, offering protection in exchange for reverence and sacrifice? To answer these questions the author examines the professional exorcist sects and rising Immortals' cults of the Sung dynasty alongside ritual practices in contemporary Taiwan and Hong Kong, as well as miracle tales, liturgies, spirit law codes, devotional poetry, and sacred geographies of the eleventh through thirteenth centuries. Drawing upon historical and anthropological evidence, he argues that two contrasting and contending models informed how the Chinese saw and see their gods. These models were used separately or in creative combination to articulate widely varying religious standpoints and competing ideas of both secular and divine power. Whether gods were bureaucrats or personal protectors depended, and still depends, he says, on who worships them, in what setting, and for what purposes.

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Authors
Hymes, R.
Corresponding author
Hymes, Robert
Venue
University of California Press eBooks
Publisher
University of California Press
Published
2002-05-21
DOI
10.1525/california/9780520207585.001.0001
OpenAlex
W3153025492
Cited by
40
References
0
Citations by year
2023: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 2 · 2015: 13 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 3
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0.48
Type
book
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
University of California Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Chinese history and philosophy
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Study and Philosophy of Religion
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Indian and Buddhist Studies
Keywords
Daoism, Song dynasty, ritual, miracle narratives, devotional poetry, sacred geography, Taiwan, Hong Kong

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