Way and Byway - Taoism, Local Religion, Models of Divinity in Sung Modern China

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About the author

Robert Hymes is Professor of Chinese History at Columbia University. He is coeditor of Ordering the World: Approaches to State and Society in Sung Dynasty China (California, 1993) and author of Statesmen and Gentlemen: The Elite of Fu-chou, Chiang-hsi, in Northern and Southern Sung (1987).

Summary

Using a combination of Sung sources and modern ethnography, this text examines the questions: were Chinese gods celestial officials, governing the fate and fortunes of their worshippers; or were they personal beings, offering protection in exchange for reverence and sacrifice.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Hymes, Robert P. Hymes, Hymes Robert P.
• Assisted by: Robert Hymes (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.05.2002
• EAN: 9780520207592
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20759-2
• No. of pages: 381
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); China, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Regional Studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Regional / International studies, RELIGION / Taoism, Taoism