Ritual Alliances of the Putian Plain : A Survey of Village Temples and Ritual Activities (Handbook of Oriental Studies) 〈2〉

Dean, Kenneth/ Zhenman, Zheng

Brill Academic Pub（2009/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 1060 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004176010
• DDC分類 299.51130951245

Full Description

Making ingenious use of a wide variety of sources, and old as well as modern technical resources, Kenneth Dean and Zheng Zhenman here set a new standard for an histoire totale for a coherently well-defined cultural region in China.At the same time it deals in-depth with the ongoing negotiation of modernity in Chinese village rituals.
Over the past thirty years, local popular religion has been revived and re-invented in the villages of the irrigated alluvial plain of Putian, Fujian, China. Volume 1 provides a historical introduction to the formation of 153 regional ritual alliances made up of 724 villages. Early popular cults, Ming lineages, Qing multi-village alliances, late Qing spirit-medium associations, 20th century state attacks on local religion, and the role of Overseas Chinese and local communities in rebuilding the temple networks are discussed. Volume 2 surveys the current population, lineages, temples, gods, and annual rituals of these villages. Maps of each ritual alliance, the distribution of major cults and lineages, are included.

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