Daoist identity : history, lineage, and ritual /

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Imprint:Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2002.
Description:x, 333 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Japanese
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5063320
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Other authors / contributors:Kohn, Livia, 1956-
Roth, Harold David.
ISBN:0824824296 (alk. paper)
0824825047 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Text in English; glossary in Japanese.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Early Formations
  • 1.. Ethnic Identity and Daoist Identity in Traditional China
  • 2.. Confession of Sins and Awareness of Self in the Taiping jing
  • 3.. "Opening the Way": Exorcism, Travel, and Soteriology in Early Daoist Mortuary Practice and Its Antecedents
  • Part II. Texts and Symbols
  • 4.. Traditional Taxonomies and Revealed Texts in the Han
  • 5.. Material Culture and the Dao: Textiles, Boats, and Zithers in the Poetry of Yu Xuanji (844-868)
  • 6.. A Mid-Ming Reappraisal of the Laozi: The Case of Wang Dao
  • Part III. Lineages and Local Culture
  • 7.. Arms and the Dao, 2: The Xu Brothers in Tea Country
  • 8.. Identity and Lineage: The Taiyi jinhua zongzhi and the Spirit-Writing Cult to Patriarch Lu in Qing China
  • 9.. Manifestations of Luzu in Modern Guangdong and Hong Kong: The Rise and Growth of Spirit-Writing Cults
  • Part IV. Ritual Boundaries
  • 10.. Fang Yankou and Pudu: Translation, Metaphor, and Religious Identity
  • 11.. Daoist Hand Signs and Buddhist Mudras
  • 12.. Documents Used in Rituals of Merit in Taiwanese Daoism
  • 13.. Offerings in Daoist Ritual
  • Glossary
  • Names of Authors Cited
  • List of Contributors
  • Index