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Religion and society in T'ang and Sung China |
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| Author |
Ebrey, Patricia Buckley
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Gregory, Peter N.
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| Date | 1993 |
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| Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
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| Publisher Url |
http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu
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| Location | Honolulu, HI, US [檀香山, 夏威夷州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 書籍=Book |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Keyword | History; Tang dynasty; Sung dynasty; Religion; China |
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| Abstract | The T'ang (618-907) and Sung (960-1279) dynasties
were times of great change in China. The economy grew
spectacularly，the population doubled，migration
brought more and more people to the fertile south,
and printing led to a great increase in the
availability of books. Buddhism became a fully
sinicized religion that penetrated deeply into
ordinary life. New cults and sects appeared and
flourished. Ch'an became the dominant force within
institutional Buddhism. Celestial Heart and Thunder
Rites teachings gained prominence within Taoism,
local gods such as Wen-ch'ang came to be worshipped
all over the country，and office-holding gods, such
as the gods of city walls, became a common feature
of the popular pantheon. Even Neo-Confucianism，often
thought of simply as an intellectual movement，was
in many ways like a new sect，its followers asked to
alter fundamentally their patterns of daily life and
even to worship at shrines to Confucian heroes.
How were changes in the religions of the Chinese
people implicated in the momentous social and cultural
changes of this period? This volume represents a
collaborative effort of nine scholars of Chinese
religion，history，and thought to begin addressing
this question. Their separate chapters vividly convey
the diversity of the T'ang and Sung religious world:
gods that communicate through spirit writing; scholars
who use veneration of maligned officials as subtle
forms of political protest; local residents who try
to enhance their power by asserting their power of
the gods or getting titles for them; officials who
seek the most up-to-date techniques to master occult
forces. Still the larger goal of the authors is
to contribute toward a more integrated understanding
of Chinese culture and the ways it has changed. Basing
themselves on close study of often difficult texts,
each author has looked for evidence of inter-
connections：links between social and religious changes,
between political or economic developments and religious
ideas and practices, between folk religion and
institutional religion，between Confucian philosophy
and changes in the social and religious landscape,
and between the ways religious and secular groups
were organized. Taken together，these nine chapters
present a new，fuller，and more nuanced view of the
Chinese religions in this period of change. |
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| Created date | 1998.04.28
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| Modified date | 2015.01.21 |
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