Paradigm Shifts in Early and Modern Chinese Religion

A History
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-38311-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 34, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4 China

From the fifth century BC to the present and dealing with the Three Teachings (Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism) as well as popular religion, this introduction to the eight-volume Early and Modern Chinese Religion explores key ideas and events in four periods of paradigm shift in the intertwined histories of Chinese religion, politics, and culture. It shows how, in the Chinese church-state, elite processes of rationalization, interiorization, and secularization are at work in every period of major change and how popular religion gradually emerges to a position of dominance by means of a long history of at once resisting, adapting to, and collaborating with elite-driven change. Topics covered include ritual, scripture, philosophy, state policy, medicine, sacred geography, gender, and the economy. It also serves as the basis for an on-line Coursera course.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lagerwey, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Östliche Religionen Konfuzianismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Östliche Religionen Taoismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Preliminaries

1 Intellectual Change in the Warring States and Han (481 BC–220 AD)

1 Paradigm Shift in the Warring States

2 The Attack on Shamanism

3 The Emergence of Self-Cultivation Practice

4 The Philosophical Preparation of Political Unity

5 Han Religion

6 Changing Theories of Illness

2 Religious Transformation in the Period of Division (220–589 AD)

1 The Three Teachings and Shamanism

2 Religious Communities

3 Rituals

4 Scriptures

5 Literature

6 Sacred Geography

7 Popular Religion

3 Religion and Thought in the Song, Jin, and Yuan (960–1368)

1 “Modern China”

2 State Religion

3 Local Society

4 Daoism in the Song and Jin

5 Buddhism in the Song

6 Confucianism in the Song

4 Structuring Values 1850–2015

1 Religion and Modernity

2 Economics

3 Science and Scientism

4 Gender

5 Spirit Writing, Redemptive Societies, and Charity Halls

6 Charismatic Christianity

By Way of Conclusion

Bibliography of Chapters Cited

Index

Über Autor(innen)

John Lagerwey, PhD (1975), Harvard University, in early Chinese literature, is professor of Chinese studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has published widely on Daoist ritual and local religion and organized major projects in the ethnography and history of Chinese religion and society.