Gendering Chinese Religion

Author : Jinhua Jia,Xiaofei Kang,Ping Yao
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438453071

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Gendering Chinese Religion by Jinhua Jia,Xiaofei Kang,Ping Yao Pdf

A gender-critical consideration of women and religion in Chinese traditions from medieval to modern times. Gendering Chinese Religion marks the emergence of a subfield on women, gender, and religion in China studies. Ranging from the medieval period to the present day, this volume departs from the conventional and often male-centered categorization of Chinese religions into Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, and popular religion. It makes two compelling arguments. First, Chinese women have deployed specific religious ideas and rituals to empower themselves in various social contexts. Second, gendered perceptions and representations of Chinese religions have been indispensable to the historical and contemporary construction of social and political power. The contributors use innovative ways of discovering and applying a rich variety of sources, many previously ignored by scholars. While each of the chapters in this interdisciplinary work represents a distinct perspective, together they form a coherent dialogue about the historical importance, intellectual possibilities, and methodological protocols of this new subfield.

Author : Jinhua Jia
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231545495

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Gender, Power, and Talent by Jinhua Jia Pdf

During the Tang dynasty (618–907), changes in political policies, the religious landscape, and gender relations opened the possibility for Daoist women to play an unprecedented role in religious and public life. Women, from imperial princesses to the daughters of commoner families, could be ordained as Daoist priestesses and become religious leaders, teachers, and practitioners in their own right. Some achieved remarkable accomplishments: one wrote and transmitted texts on meditation and inner cultivation; another, a physician, authored a treatise on therapeutic methods, medical theory, and longevity techniques. Priestess-poets composed major works, and talented priestess-artists produced stunning calligraphy. In Gender, Power, and Talent, Jinhua Jia draws on a wealth of previously untapped sources to explain how Daoist priestesses distinguished themselves as a distinct gendered religious and social group. She describes the life journey of priestesses from palace women to abbesses and ordinary practitioners, touching on their varied reasons for entering the Daoist orders, the role of social and religious institutions, forms of spiritual experience, and the relationships between gendered identities and cultural representations. Jia takes the reader inside convents and cloisters, demonstrating how they functioned both as a female space for self-determination and as a public platform for both religious and social spheres. The first comprehensive study of the lives and roles of Daoist priestesses in Tang China, Gender, Power, and Talent restores women to the landscape of Chinese religion and literature and proposes new methodologies for the growing field of gender and religion.

Author : David A. Palmer,Glenn Shive,Philip L. Wickeri
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199911356

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Chinese Religious Life by David A. Palmer,Glenn Shive,Philip L. Wickeri Pdf

Written by a team of internationally renowned scholars, this volume provides an in-depth introduction to religion in contemporary China. Instead of adopting the traditional focus on pre-modern religious history and doctrinal traditions, Chinese Religious Life examines the social dimensions of religious life, with essays devoted to religion in urban, rural, and ethnic minority settings; to the religious dimensions of body, gender, environment, and civil society; and to the historical, sociological, economic, and political aspects of religion in contemporary Chinese society.

Author : Megan Bryson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781503600454

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Goddess on the Frontier by Megan Bryson Pdf

Dali is a small region on a high plateau in Southeast Asia. Its main deity, Baijie, has assumed several gendered forms throughout the area's history: Buddhist goddess, the mother of Dali's founder, a widowed martyr, and a village divinity. What accounts for so many different incarnations of a local deity? Goddess on the Frontier argues that Dali's encounters with forces beyond region and nation have influenced the goddess's transformations. Dali sits at the cultural crossroads of Southeast Asia, India, and Tibet; it has been claimed by different countries but is currently part of Yunnan Province in Southwest China. Megan Bryson incorporates historical-textual studies, art history, and ethnography in her book to argue that Baijie provided a regional identity that enabled Dali to position itself geopolitically and historically. In doing so, Bryson provides a case study of how people craft local identities out of disparate cultural elements and how these local identities transform over time in relation to larger historical changes—including the increasing presence of the Chinese state.

Author : Paul R. Katz
Publisher : Academia Sinica on East Asia
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : China, Southwest
ISBN : 103206644X

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Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in Western Hunan During the Modern Era by Paul R. Katz Pdf

This book explores how beliefs and practices have shaped the interactions between different ethnic groups in Western Hunan, as well as considering how religious life has adapted to the challenges of modern Chinese history. Combining historical and ethnographic methodologies, chapters in this book are structured around changes that occurred during the interaction between Miao ritual traditions and religions such as Daoism, with particular focus on the commonalities and differences seen between Western Hunan and other areas of Southwest China. In addition, investigation is made into how gender and ethnicity have shaped such processes, and what these phenomena can teach about larger questions of modern Chinese history. As such, this study transcends existing scholarship on Western Hunan - which has stressed the impact of state policies and elite agendas - by focusing instead on the roles played by ritual specialists. Such findings call into question conventional wisdom about the 'standardization' of Chinese culture, as well as the integration of local society into the state by means of written texts. Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in Western Hunan during the Modern Era will prove valuable to students and scholars of history, ethnography, anthropology, ethnic studies, and Asian studies more broadly.

Author : Christian Jochim
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000302476

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Chinese Religions by Christian Jochim Pdf

Covers Confucianism, Taoism, and Chinese Buddhism focusing on the interaction between religion and aspects of Chinese culture such as the family, the community, the arts, etc.

Author : Randall Laird Nadeau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : China
ISBN : 1782683259

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The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Chinese Religions by Randall Laird Nadeau Pdf

Comprising the most up-to-date, interdisciplinary research on the study of Chinese religious beliefs and cultural practices, this volume explores the rich and complex religious and philosophical traditions that have developed and flourished in one of the world's oldest civilizations. Covers the main Chinese traditions of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism as well as Christianity and Islam. Features a unique organizational structure, with groups of readings focused on historical, traditions-based, and topical elements of Chinese religion. Explores a number of contemporary religious topics.

Author : Michael Szonyi
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118624609

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A Companion to Chinese History by Michael Szonyi Pdf

A Companion to Chinese History presents a collection of essays offering a comprehensive overview of the latest intellectual developments in the study of China’s history from the ancient past up until the present day. Covers the major trends in the study of Chinese history from antiquity to the present day Considers the latest scholarship of historians working in China and around the world Explores a variety of long-range questions and themes which serves to bridge the conventional divide between China’s traditional and modern eras Addresses China’s connections with other nations and regions and enables non-specialists to make comparisons with their own fields Features discussion of traditional topics and chronological approaches as well as newer themes such as Chinese history in relation to sexuality, national identity, and the environment

Author : Ann A. Pang-White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Philosophy, Chinese
ISBN : 1474219683

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The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy and Gender by Ann A. Pang-White Pdf

Author : Paul R. Katz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429589881

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Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in Western Hunan during the Modern Era by Paul R. Katz Pdf

This book explores how beliefs and practices have shaped the interactions between different ethnic groups in Western Hunan, as well as considering how religious life has adapted to the challenges of modern Chinese history. Combining historical and ethnographic methodologies, chapters in this book are structured around changes that occurred during the interaction between Miao ritual traditions and religions such as Daoism, with particular focus on the commonalities and differences seen between Western Hunan and other areas of Southwest China. In addition, investigation is made into how gender and ethnicity have shaped such processes, and what these phenomena can teach about larger questions of modern Chinese history. As such, this study transcends existing scholarship on Western Hunan – which has stressed the impact of state policies and elite agendas – by focusing instead on the roles played by ritual specialists. Such findings call into question conventional wisdom about the ‘standardization’ of Chinese culture, as well as the integration of local society into the state by means of written texts. Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in Western Hunan during the Modern Era will prove valuable to students and scholars of history, ethnography, anthropology, ethnic studies, and Asian studies more broadly.

Author : Niamh Reilly,Stacey Scriver
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781135014254

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Religion, Gender, and the Public Sphere by Niamh Reilly,Stacey Scriver Pdf

The re-emergence of religion as a significant cultural, social and political, force is not gender neutral. Tensions between claims for women’s equality and the rights of sexual minorities on one side and the claims of religions on the other side are well-documented across all major religions and regions. It is also well recognized in feminist scholarship that gender identities and ethno-religious identities work together in complex ways that are often exploited by dominant groups. Hence, a more comprehensive understanding of the changing role and influence of religion in the public sphere more widely requires complex, multidisciplinary and comparative gender analyses. Most recent discussion on these matters, however, especially in Europe, has focused primarily on the perceived subordinate status of Muslim women. These debates are a reminder of the deep interrelation of questions of gender, identity, human rights and religious freedom more generally. The relatively narrow (albeit important) purview of such discussions so far, however, underscores the need to extend the horizon of enquiry vis-à-vis religion, gender and the public sphere beyond the binary of ‘Islam versus the West’. Religion, Gender and the Public Sphere moves gender from the periphery to the centre of contemporary debates about the role of religion in public and political life. It offers a timely, multidisciplinary collection of gender-focused essays that address an array of challenges arising from the changing role and influence of religious organisations, identities, actors and values in the public sphere in contemporary multicultural and democratic societies.

Author : Jinhua Jia
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791468240

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The Hongzhou School of Chan Buddhism in Eighth- through Tenth-Century China by Jinhua Jia Pdf

A comprehensive study of the Hongzhou school of Chan Buddhism, long regarded as the Golden Age of this tradition, using many previously ignored texts, including stele inscriptions.

Author : Xiaofei Kang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004415935

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Women, Family and the Chinese Socialist State, 1950-2010 by Xiaofei Kang Pdf

A rare window for the English speaking world to learn how scholars in China understand and interpret central issues pertaining to women and family from the founding of the People’s Republic to the reform era.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1127 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004304642

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Modern Chinese Religion II: 1850 - 2015 (2 vols) by Anonim Pdf

This book examines the transformation of values in China since 1850, first in the “secular” realms of economics, science, medicine, aesthetics, media and gender, and then in each of the major religions (Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity) and in Marxist discourse.

Author : Linell E. Cady,Tracy Fessenden
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231162487

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Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference by Linell E. Cady,Tracy Fessenden Pdf

Global struggles over women’s roles, rights, and dress have taken center stage in a drama that casts the secular and the religious in tense if not violent opposition. Advocates for equality speak of the issue in terms of rights and modern progress while reactionaries ground their authority in religious and scriptural appeals. Both sides presume women’s emancipation is tied to secularization. This volume upsets these certainties by blending diverse voices and traditions, both secular and religious, in studies historicizing, questioning, and testing the implicit links between secularism and expanded freedoms for women. Rather than treat secularism as the answer to conflicts over gender and sexuality, these essays show how it structures the conditions generating them.