Introduction to Feng Shui

Informationen zum Autor Ole Bruun is Associate Professor at the Institute for Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, Denmark. He is author of Fengshui in China: Geomantic Divination Between State Orthodoxy and Popular Religion (2003) and editor with Michael Jacobsen of Human Rights and Asian Values: Contested Identities and Cultural Representations in Asia (2000). Klappentext Examines the origins and practices of Chinese Feng Shui as well as its recent Western interpretations. Zusammenfassung In the last few decades Feng Shui has become a global spiritual movement. Ole Bruun explains its Chinese origins and meanings as well as its more recent Western interpretations. Unlike the abundance of popular manuals! his Introduction treats Chinese Feng Shui as an academic subject! bridging religion! history and sociology. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. A brief history of Feng Shui; 3. Feng Shui in the context of Chinese popular religion; 4. Feng Shui research; 5. Cosmological principles, schools of interpretation, and the Feng Shui compass; 6. Feng Shui in the Chinese cityscape: China proper and overseas; 7. Modern Feng Shui interpretations and uses; 8. Environmental concerns; 9. Feng Shui as cultural globalization; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Ole Bruun, Bruun Ole
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.12.2008
• EAN: 9780521863520
• ISBN: 978-0-521-86352-0
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Introduction to Religion; Introduction to Religion
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; RELIGION / Buddhism / General, Buddhism, Asian History, Non-Western philosophy, Occult Studies