Religion and Poetry in Medieval China The Way and the Words

This volume of interdisciplinary essays examines the intersection of religion and literature in medieval China, focusing on the impact of Buddhism and Daoism on a wide range of elite and popular literary texts and religious practices in the 3rd-11th centuries CE.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Gil Raz is Associate Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College specializing in the study of medieval Chinese religion. His book The Emergence of Daoism: Creation of Tradition (2012) and many publications examine Daoist notions of space and time, sexual practices, and religious interactions in medieval China. Anna M. Shields, Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies, Princeton University, specializes in the literary history of the Tang through Northern Song. Her most recent book is One Who Knows Me: Friendship and Literary Culture in Mid-Tang China (2015); current research examines the reception of Tang literature, 10th-11th centuries.

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Anna Shields (Herausgeber), Raz Gil (Herausgeber)
• Autoren: Gil Shields Raz
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.12.2025
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik
• EAN: 9781041185116
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4118511-6
• Anzahl Seiten: 268
• Serie: Global Chinese Histories, 250-1650
• Themen: China, RELIGION / Buddhism / History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, Buddhism, Chinese, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, RELIGION / Taoism, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Taoism, daoism;buddhism;medieval china;medieval poetry, Medieval China, medieval poetry, religious syncretism China, classical poetry interpretation, elite and popular religion, interdisciplinary study of medieval China