The spirits are drunk : comparative approaches to Chinese religion /
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| Author / Creator: | Paper, Jordan D. |
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| Imprint: | Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c1995. |
| Description: | xx, 315 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1698412 |
Table of Contents:
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: The Study of Chinese Religion
- The Understanding of Religion in China
- The Understanding of Chinese Religion in the West
- Recent Trends in Western Studies of Chinese Religion
- Traditional Chinese Elite Values and Marxism
- Religion in Contemporary China
- The Study of Religion in China
- The Study of Religion in Taiwan
- 2. The Essence of Chinese Religion
- Chinese Ritual and Cultural Continuity
- Ritual and Religion in Chinese Culture
- Ritual and Myth in Chinese Religion: Digression I
- Protohistoric Clan Ritual
- Early Historic Clan Ritual
- Early Historic Family Ritual
- Early Traditional Ritual
- Religious and Secular Ritual: Digression II
- Late Traditional Ritual
- Food in Chinese Culture
- Modern Transformations
- The Ritual Core of Chinese Religion
- 3. Ecstatic Functionaries in Chinese Religion I: Shamans
- Shamanism in Early Chinese Texts
- The Roots of Late Zhou Shamanism: Shang Religion
- Conclusions
- 4. Ecstatic Functionaries in Chinese Religion II: Mediums
- Shamanism and Mediumism (Spirit Possession)
- The Enigma of Protohistoric Chinese Mediumism
- Historic Mediumism
- Mediums in Modern China
- Mediums in Modern China
- Conclusions
- 5. The Mystic Experience in Chinese Religion I: Transformation
- The Problem
- From Shamanism to Mysticism in the Zhuangzi
- From Shamn to Mystic in Anishnabe Religion
- Causative Factors for the Transformation
- 6. The Mystic Experience in Chinese Religion II: Expression
- Aesthetics and the Wenren
- History of Aesthetic Expressions
- Aesthetics and Religion
- Contemporary China
- 7. The Fundament of Religio-Aesthetic Expression: Stones and Seals
- A. History of Seals in China
- Religio-Aesthetics of Stones
- Seal Stones
- Contemporary China
- 8. Female Spirits and Spirituality in Chinese Religion
- Earth
- The Failure of Patriarchalization
- The Variability of Patriarchality
- Female and Male Religious Roles and Ideology
- Comparative Cosmology and Values
- 9. Christianity from the Perspective of Chinese Religion
- Hong Xiuquan
- A Contemporary Chinese Interpretation
- Conclusions
- Postface
- Comparative Approaches
- Needed Studies
- Expending the Notion of Religion
- Appendix: Analysis of Bronze Vessels and Decor Relevant to Chapter 4
- References
- Index