Mihwa Choi

Death Rituals and Politics in Northern Song China

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Produktbeschreibung

This study examines how political and legal disputes regarding the performance of death rituals contributed to shape a revival of Confucianism in eleventh-century Northern Song China.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780190459765
• ISBN-10: 019045976X
• Artikelnr.: 48320857

Autorenporträt

Assistant Professor of Religion, San Diego State University

Inhaltsangabe

* INTRODUCTION
* CHAPTER I
* The Adaptation of Ancestral Ritual to Serve the Royal Imaginary
* CHAPTER II
* "How Does Heaven Come to Speak": The Contesting Discourse and the
Revival of Confucian Death Rituals
* CHAPTER III
* Ordering Society through Confucian Rituals
* CHAPTER IV
* Offering for Saving of the Souls
* CHAPTER V
* Social Imaginaries and Politics in the Narratives on the World-beyond
and the Supernatural
* CHAPTER VI
* Burial: A Contested Site for Social Imaginaries
* CONCLUSION
* BIBLIOGRPAHY