Daoist Identity : : History, Lineage, and Ritual /

Daoist Identity : : History, Lineage, and Ritual / / ed. by Harold D. Roth, Livia Kohn.

Daoist Identity is an exploration of the various means by which Daoists over the centuries have created an identity for themselves. Using modern sociological studies of identity formation as its foundation, it brings together a representative sample of in-depth analyses by eminent American and Japan...

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MitwirkendeR:
Cahill, Suzanne,
Csikszentmihàlyi, Mark,
Davis, Edward L.,
Haruji, Asano,
Hiroshi, Maruyama,
Ichiko, Shiga,
Keiko, Mitamura,
Kleeman, Terry F.,
Masaaki, Tsuchiya,
Masaya, Mabuchi,
Nickerson, Peter,
Orzech, Charles D.,
Yuria, Mori,
HerausgeberIn:
Kohn, Livia,
Roth, Harold D.,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2002]
©2002
Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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 Lü in Qing China
  • 9. Manifestations of Lüzu 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
  • Contributors
  • Index

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