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Historical introduction to the return of the gods [electronic resource] / by Kenneth Dean and Zheng Zhenman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dean, Kenneth.
- Series:
- Handbuch der Orientalisk. China ; Vierte Abteilung, v. 23/1.
- Handbook of Oriental studies Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section 4, China, 0169-9520 ; v. 23/1
- Ritual alliances of the Putian Plain ; v. 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gods, Chinese.
- Village communities--China--History.
- Village communities.
- China--Genealogy--Religious aspects.
- China.
- China--Religious life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (453 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Making ingenious use of a wide variety of sources, and old as well as modern technical resources, Kenneth Dean and Zheng Zhenman here set a new standard for an histoire totale for a coherently well-defined cultural region in China. At the same time it deals in-depth with the ongoing negotiation of modernity in Chinese village rituals. Over the past thirty years, local popular religion has been revived and re-invented in the villages of the irrigated alluvial plain of Putian, Fujian, China. Volume 1 provides a historical introduction to the formation of 153 regional ritual alliances made up of 724 villages. Early popular cults, Ming lineages, Qing multi-village alliances, late Qing spirit-medium associations, 20th century state attacks on local religion, and the role of Overseas Chinese and local communities in rebuilding the temple networks are discussed. Volume 2 surveys the current population, lineages, temples, gods, and annual rituals of these villages. Maps of each ritual alliance, the distribution of major cults and lineages, are included. Find information about a film related to the book here.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The gods return / by Kenneth Dean
- pt. 2. Lineage and religion on the Putian Plains : an analysis based on stone inscriptions / by Zheng Zhenman ; translated by Kenneth Dean.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-94968-3
- 9786612949685
- 90-474-2946-X
- OCLC:
- 700942323
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/ej.9789004176027.i-437 DOI
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