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The anthropology of religion, charisma, and ghosts [electronic resource] : Chinese lessons for adequate theory / Stephan Feuchtwang.
Author
Feuchtwang, Stephan
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, c2010.
Description
1 online resource (221 p.)
Availability
Available Online
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Details
Subject(s)
Ritual
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China
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Ghosts
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China
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Ritual
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Taiwan
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Ghosts
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Taiwan
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China
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Religion
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Taiwan
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Religion
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Series
Religion and society (Hague, Netherlands) ; 46.
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Religion and society ; v. 46
Subseries of
Religion and Society
Summary note
It has been said that Chinese government was, until the republican period, government through li. Li is the untranslatable word covering appropriate conduct toward others, from the guest rituals of imperial diplomacy to the hospitality offered to guests in the homes of ordinary people. It also covers the centring of self in relation to the flows and objects in a landscape or a built environment, including the world beyond the spans of human and other lives. It is prevalent under the republican regimes of China and Taiwan in the forming and maintaining of personal relations, in the respect for ancestors, and especially in the continuing rituals of address to gods, of command to demons, and of charity to neglected souls. The concept of 'religion' does not grasp this, neither does the concept of 'ritual', yet li undoubtedly refers to a figuration of a universe and of place in the world as encompassing as any body of rite and magic or of any religion. Through studies of Chinese gods and ghosts this book challenges theories of religion based on a supreme god and that god's prophets, as well as those like Hinduism based on mythical figures from epics, and offers another conception of humanity and the world, distinct from that conveyed by the rituals of other classical anthropological theories.
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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-210) and index.
Language note
English
Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Part 1. Religion
Chapter 2. 'Religion' and its historical transfer into China
Chapter 3. 'A Chinese religion exists'
Chapter 4. A theory of religious ritual as deference and communicative excess
Part 2. Charisma
Chapter 5. The Organisation of Extravagance as Charismatic authority and Self-government
Chapter 6. Charismatic self-healing: a case of spirit-writing in Taiwan under Japanese occupation
Chapter 7. Charisma in China
Part 3. Ghosts
Chapter 8. The avenging ghost
Chapter 9. Between temporalities: a case study of the transmission of loss in Taiwan
Chapter 10. Between death and life: a location of ghosts and demons
Chapter 11. 'Religion' in the government of the People's Republic of China: policy-led redefinition and openings in political space
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ISBN
1-282-70658-6
9786612706585
3-11-022356-2
OCLC
654029424
659564674
775644339
Doi
10.1515/9783110223569
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