Society and the Supernatural in Song China / / Edward L. Davis.
Society and the Supernatural in Song China is at once a meticulous examination of spirit possession and exorcism in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and a social history of the full panoply of China's religious practices and practitioners at the moment when she was poised to dominate the wo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2001] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2001 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Therapeutic Movements in the Song: Texts
- 3. New Therapeutic Movements in the Song: Practitioners
- 4. The Cult of the Black Killer
- 5. The Daoist Ritual Master and Child-Mediums
- 6. Tantric Exorcists and Child-Mediums
- 7. Daoist Priests, Confucian Literati, and Child-Mediums
- 8. Spirit-Possession and the Grateful Dead: Daoist and Buddhist Mortuary Ritual in the Song
- 9. The Syncretic Field of Chinese Religion
- Appendix: Huanglu jiao and Shuilu zhai
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author