China
A Religious State
Published on 1. March 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
248 pages
978-988-8028-04-7 (ISBN)
Description
The Chinese state has always been a religious one, in which pantheons and rituals were central political concerns. But while the state regularly refined its definition of orthodoxy, Chinese local society worshiped gods of its own choosing and organized itself autonomously in geomantic space, according to a local festival calendar.
Reviews / Votes
"China: A Religious State is a pathbreaking overview of Chinese religious traditions that represents the fruition of three decades of research. It is also noteworthy for its solid interdisciplinary approach, with the author convincingly demonstrating the importance of ethnography in the study of Chinese communal religions." - Paul Katz, Academia Sinica, TaiwanMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-988-8028-04-7 (9789888028047)
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Book
04/2010
Hong Kong University Press
€38.56
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Persons
John Lagerwey is a professor of Daoist history at the 381cole Pratique des Hautes 381tudes and of Chinese studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is author of Taoist Ritual in Chinese Society and History and editor of the thirty-volume "Traditional Hakka Society Series" as well as the recently published four-volume set Early Chinese Religion.