Chinese Environmental Ethics - Religions, Ontologies, and Practices

A significant advance in the field of Chinese environmental anthropology, the outstanding scholars in this volume provide a unique and much needed contribution to the scholarship on China and the environment.

List of contents

I. Introduction
By Prof. Mayfair Yang (Religious Studies/East Asian Studies, U.C. Santa Barbara)
II. Exploring Non-Anthropocentric Ontologies
Chapter 1: Protecting Life in Taiwan: Can the Rights of Nature Protect all Sentient Beings?
By Jeffrey Nicolaisen (Duke Kunshan University, China)
III. The Sacralization of Trees and Forests
Chapter 2: From Mission to Economy: The Vicissitudes of Daoist Ecological Forests in Minqin County, Gansu Province
By Der-Rui Yang (Anthropology, Nanjing University, China)
Chapter 3: Homo Arborealus: The Intermeshing of Regimes of Tree-Mindedness
By Adam Chau (East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge, U.K.)
IV. Sentient Beings: Engaging with Animals and Divinities in Dreams and Rituals
Chapter 4: The Non-Anthropocentricity of Dreaming in Late Classical and Medieval China
By Robert Ford Campany (Asian Studies & Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University)
Chapter 5: Releasing Animals for Buddhist Merit in the Context of Science and Ecology
By Dedong Wei (Institute

About the author

Mayfair Yang is professor of religious and East Asian studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has authored two monographs: Gifts, Favors, and Banquets: the Art of Social Relationships in China (American Ethnological Society Prize) and Re-enchanting Modernity in China: Ritual Economy and Religious Civil Society in Wenzhou) and has edited two books: Chinese Religiosities: Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation and Spaces of Their Own: Women’s Public Sphere in Transnational China.

Summary

A significant advance in the field of Chinese environmental anthropology, the outstanding scholars in this volume provide a unique and much needed contribution to the scholarship on China and the environment.

Product details

• Authors: Mayfair Yang
• Assisted by: Yang Mayfair Yang (Editor), Mayfair Yang (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781538156506
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-5650-6
• No. of pages: 278
• Series: Chinese Environmental Ethics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Other world religions; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Anthropology, PHILOSOPHY / Eastern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social & cultural anthropology, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Oriental & Indian philosophy, East Asian & Indian philosophy