Paradigm shifts in early and modern Chinese religion : : a history / / by John Lagerwey.

• VerfasserIn: Lagerwey, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4 China 34.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (305 pages).

From the fifth century BC to the present and dealing with the Three Teachings (Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism) as well as popular religion, this introduction to the eight-volume Early and Modern Chinese Religion explores key ideas and events in four periods of paradigm shift in the intertwined histories of Chinese religion, politics, and culture. It shows how, in the Chinese church-state, elite processes of rationalization, interiorization, and secularization are at work in every period of major change and how popular religion gradually emerges to a position of dominance by means of a long history of at once resisting, adapting to, and collaborating with elite-driven change. Topics covered include ritual, scripture, philosophy, state policy, medicine, sacred geography, gender, and the economy. It also serves as the basis for an on-line Coursera course.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Preface -- Preliminaries -- Intellectual Change in the Warring States and Han (481 BC–220 AD) -- Religious Transformation in the Period of Division (220–589 AD) -- Religion and Thought in the Song, Jin, and Yuan (960–1368) -- Structuring Values 1850–2015 -- By Way of Conclusion -- Back Matter -- Bibliography of Chapters Cited -- Index.