标题: John Lagerwey（劳格文）：China：A Religious State [打印本页] 作者: 南池子 时间: 2013-12-15 13:35 标题: John Lagerwey（劳格文）：China：A Religious State
作者: John Lagerwey
出版社: Hong Kong University Press
出版年: 2010-4-15
页数: 238
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9789888028030
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Brief Introduction：
Over the last forty years, our vision of Chinese culture and history has been transformed by the discovery of the role of religion in Chinese state-making and in local society. The Daoist religion, in particular, long despised as "superstitious," has recovered its place as "the native higher religion." But while the Chinese state tried from the fifth century on to construct an orthodoxy based on Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism, local society everywhere carved out for itself its own geomantically defined space and organized itself around local festivals in honor of gods of its own choosing - gods who were often invented and then represented by illiterate mediums. Looking at China from the point of view of elite or popular culture therefore produces very different results.
John Lagerwey has done extensive fieldwork on local society and its festivals. This book represents a first attempt to use this new research to integrate top-down and bottom-up views of Chinese society, culture, and history. It should be of interest to a wide range of China specialists, students of religion and popular culture, as well as participants in the ongoing interdisciplinary dialogue between historians and anthropologists.
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Table of Contexts
Preface p. vii
Introduction p. 1
Chapter 1 A Brief History of the Pantheon: Ancestors and Gods in State and Local Religion and Politics p. 19
Chapter 2 Daoist Ritual in Social and Historical Perspective p. 57
Chapter 3 Festivals in Southeastern China p. 95
Chapter 4 On the Rational Character of Local Religion p. 153
Concluding Reflections p. 171
Notes p. 179
Bibliography p. 209
Index p. 223
