Sanctity and self-inflicted violence in Chinese religions, 1500-1700 / Jimmy Yu.
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Yu, Jimmy Yung Fung, 1968- (författare)
- ISBN 9780199844883
- Publicerad: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, [2012]
- Copyright: ©2012.
- Engelska xiv, 272 pages
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Sammanfattning
Ämnesord
Stäng
- A Culture in Flux: Historical Background -- Embodying the Text through Blood Writing -- Nourishing the Parent with One's Own Flesh -- Chaste Widows as Entertainment and Revenants -- Exposing and Burning the Body for Rain -- Conclusion.
- "In this illuminating study of a vital but long overlooked aspect of Chinese religious life, Jimmy Yu reveals that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, self-inflicted violence was an essential and sanctioned part of Chinese culture. He examines a wide range of practices, including blood writing, filial body-slicing, chastity mutilations and suicides, ritual exposure, and self-immolation, arguing that each practice was public, scripted, and a signal of cultural expectations. Individuals engaged in acts of self-inflicted violence to exercise power and to affect society, by articulating moral values, reinstituting order, forging new social relations, and protecting against the threat of moral ambiguity. Self-inflicted violence was intelligible both to the person doing the act and to those who viewed and interpreted it, regardless of the various religions of the period: Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and other religions. This book is a groundbreaking contribution to scholarship on bodily practices in late imperial China, challenging preconceived ideas about analytic categories of religion, culture, and ritual in the study of Chinese religions."--Publisher's website.
Ämnesord
- Self-mutilation -- Religious aspects -- History -- 16th century. (LCSH)
- Rites and ceremonies -- China -- History -- 16th century. (LCSH)
- Violence -- Religious aspects -- History -- 16th century. (LCSH)
- Self-mutilation -- Religious aspects -- History -- 17th century. (LCSH)
- Rites and ceremonies -- China -- History -- 17th century. (LCSH)
- Violence -- Religious aspects -- History -- 17th century. (LCSH)
- Ceremonier -- religiösa aspekter -- historia -- Kina (sao)
- Våld -- religiösa aspekter -- historia -- Kina (sao)
- China -- Religious life and customs. (LCSH)
Indexterm och SAB-rubrik
- Cmba Kinesisk religion
Klassifikation
- BL1812.R57 (LCC)
- 299.5/11342 (DDC)
- Cmba (kssb/8)
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