Religion And Society In T Ang And Sung China

Author : Patricia Buckley Ebrey,Peter N. Gregory
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1993-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0824815122

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Religion and Society in T'ang and Sung China by Patricia Buckley Ebrey,Peter N. Gregory Pdf

The T'ang (618-907) and Sung (960-1279) dynasties were times of great change in China. The economy flourished, the population doubled, printing led to a great increase in the availability of books, Buddhism became a fully sinicized religion penetrating deeply into ordinary life. This volume represents a collaborative effort of nine scholars of Chinese religion, history, and thought to begin addressing the question of how changes in the religions of the Chinese people were implicated in the momentous social and cultural changes of this period.

Author : C.K. Yang
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520318373

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Religion in Chinese Society by C.K. Yang Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1961.

Author : John Lagerwey
Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Religion and Chinese Society Vol. 1 by John Lagerwey Pdf

Thirty years ago, Hu Shih's views of Chinese society and history were representative of Sinology in general: China itself had no native religion, just local customs; its only real religion was an import, Buddhism. These views have now been completely overturned, with massive implications for our understanding not only of China but also of humanity as a whole: it is no longer possible to imagine that at least one major traditional society constructed and construed itself without reference to a non-mundane world that permeated every facet of society, and it therefore becomes indispensable for students of China to take the history of Chinese religion into account and for students of religion to take into account the Chinese experience of and Chinese categories for dealing with religious phenomena. The present volumes contain a selection of twenty-one essays presented in a conference convened jointly by the Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient and the Centre for the Study of Religion and Chinese Society of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, on "Religion and Chinese Society: The Transformation of a Field and Its Implications for the Study of Chinese Culture" held on May 29-June 2, 2000. The collection aims at providing as wide a coverage as possible of recent research in the history of Chinese religion and seeks to draw some tentative conclusions about the implications for the study of Chinese religion and society in general.

Author : Yijie Tang
Publisher : CRVP
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1565180356

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Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity, and Chinese Culture by Yijie Tang Pdf

Confucianism and Daoism absorbing and mutually transforming new horizons, especially Buddhism; attention to the writings of Matteo Ricci and potential Christian contributions to modern development in Chinese culture.

Author : Daniel A. Getz,Peter N. Gregory
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-10-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0824826817

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Buddhism in the Sung by Daniel A. Getz,Peter N. Gregory Pdf

New paperback edition The Sung Dynasty (960–1279) has long been recognized as a major watershed in Chinese history. Although there are recent major monographs on Sung society, government, literature, Confucian thought, and popular religion, the contribution of Buddhism to Sung social and cultural life has been all but ignored. Indeed, the study of Buddhism during the Sung has lagged behind that of other periods of Chinese history. One reason for the neglect of this important aspect of Sung society is undoubtedly the tenacity of the view that the Sung marked the beginning of an inexorable decline of Buddhism in China that extended down through the remainder of the imperial era. As this book attests, however, new research suggests that, far from signaling a decline, the Sung was a period of great efflorescence in Buddhism. This volume is the first extended scholarly treatment of Buddhism in the Sung to be published in a Western language. It focuses largely on elite figures, elite traditions, and interactions among Buddhists and literati, although some of the book’s essays touch on ways in which elite traditions both responded to and helped shape more popular forms of lay practice and piety. All of the chapters in one way or another deal with the two most important elite traditions within Sung Buddhism: Ch’an and T’ien-t’ai. Whereas most previous discussions of Buddhism in the Sung have tended to concentrate on Ch’an, the present volume is notable for giving T’ien-t’ai its due. By presenting a broader and more contextualized picture of these two traditions as they developed in the Sung, this work amply reveals the vitality of Buddhism in the Sung as well as its embeddedness in the social and intellectual life of the time.

Author : Christian Jochim
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : Glen Dudbridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0521482232

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Religious Experience and Lay Society in T'ang China by Glen Dudbridge Pdf

The remains of Tai Fu's lost collection Kuang-i chi ("The Great Book of Marvels") preserve three hundred short tales of encounters with the other world. Through the eyes of an official, the picture emerges of a complex lay society, served by a mixed priesthood of ritual practitioners. This study develops a style of close reading through which the tales give access to the lives of individuals in eighth-century China, a society embarking on fundamental change.

Author : Gregory Adam Scott,Stefania Travagnin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110547825

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Intellectual History of Key Concepts by Gregory Adam Scott,Stefania Travagnin Pdf

The three-volume project 'Concepts and Methods for the Study of Chinese Religions' is a timely review of the history of the study of Chinese religions, reconsiders the present state of analytical and methodological theories, and initiates a new chapter in the methodology of the field itself. The three volumes raise interdisciplinary and cross-tradition debates, and engage methodologies for the study of East Asian religions with Western voices in an active and constructive manner. Within the overall project, this volume addresses the intellectual history and formation of critical concepts that are foundational to the Chinese religious landscape. These concepts include lineage, scripture, education, discipline, religion, science and scientism, sustainability, law and rites, and the religious sphere. With these topics and approaches, this volume serves as a reference for graduate students and scholars interested in Chinese religions, the modern cultural and intellectual history of China (including mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Chinese communities overseas), intellectual and material history, and the global academic discourse of critical concepts in the study of religions.

Author : John Lagerwey
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789888028047

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China by John Lagerwey Pdf

Over the last 40 years, our vision of Chinese culture and history has been transformed by the discovery of the role of religion in Chinese state-making and in local society. The Daoist religion, in particular, long despised as "superstitious," has recovered its place as "the native higher religion." But while the Chinese state tried from the fifth century on to construct an orthodoxy based on Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism, local society everywhere carved out for itself its own geomantically defined space and organized itself around local festivals in honor of gods of its own choosing-gods who were often invented and then represented by illiterate mediums. Looking at China from the point of view of elite or popular culture therefore produces very different results.--John Lagerwey has done extensive fieldwork on local society and its festivals. This book represents a first attempt to use this new research to integrate top-down and bottom-up views of Chinese society, culture, and history. It should be of interest to a wide range of China specialists, students of religion and popular culture, as well as participants in the ongoing interdisciplinary dialogue between historians and anthropologists.--John Lagerwey is professor of Daoist history at the ?cole Pratique des Hautes ?tudes and of Chinese studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is author of Taoist Ritual in Chinese Society and History and editor of the 30-volume "Traditional Hakka Society Series" as well as the recently published four-volume set Early Chinese Religion.-----

Author : Walter James Clennell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : China
ISBN : STANFORD:36105080545903

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The Historical Development of Religion in China by Walter James Clennell Pdf

Author : K. Hughes,E. R. Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317850977

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Religion in China by K. Hughes,E. R. Hughes Pdf

First published in 1950. Beginning with ancient times, this volume shows how some of the early superstitions became purified through the influence of the Confucianist philosophy, how a deep strain of mysticism came from the Taoists and how thereby a worship of 'Heaven' and 'Earth' was evolved. Besides the main streams of Confucianism and Buddhism, the introduction and development of Christianity into China is also analyzed.

Author : Xinping Zhuo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811063794

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Religious Faith of the Chinese by Xinping Zhuo Pdf

This book comprehensively examines religious faith in China from the perspective of cultural philosophy and cultural history. It explores the social, political, cultural and spiritual meanings of religions, tracing their historical development and related paradigm shifts. It also analyzes the characteristics of the country’s local religions and the process of indigenization of world religions, and describes the peaceful co-existence and harmonious confluence of multiple religions in Chinese spiritual life, revealing the vibrant and diverse colors of its religious culture. Examining these religions’ social and cultural functions in contemporary Chinese society, the book demonstrates the rich and complex intertwinement of religious faith, cultural spirit and national disposition among the Chinese people.

Author : Paul W. Kroll
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004380158

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Critical Readings on Tang China by Paul W. Kroll Pdf

The Tang dynasty, lasting from 618 to 907, was the high point of medieval Chinese history, featuring unprecedented achievements in governmental organization, economic and territorial expansion, literature, the arts, and religion. Many Tang practices continued, with various developments, to influence Chinese society for the next thousand years. For these and other reasons the Tang has been a key focus of Western sinologists. This volume presents English-language reprints of fifty-seven critical studies of the Tang, in the three general categories of political history, literature and cultural history, and religion. The articles and book chapters included here are important scholarly benchmarks that will serve as the starting-point for anyone interested in the study of medieval China.

Author : Kenneth Kuan Sheng Ch'en
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691216058

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Buddhism in China by Kenneth Kuan Sheng Ch'en Pdf

CONTENTS: Preface. Table of Chinese Dynasties. Maps of Dynasties. Introduction, Growth and Domestication. Maturity and Acceptance. Decline. Conclusion. Glossary. Chinese Names and Titles. Bibliography. Index.

Author : Wing-tsit Chan
Publisher : Hippocrene Books
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015004867092

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Religious Trends in Modern China by Wing-tsit Chan Pdf