The Sinister Way : The Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious Culture

作者：RichardVonGlahn

出版社：UniversityofCaliforniaPress

副标题：TheDivineandtheDemonicinChineseReligiousCulture

出版年：2004-3-19

页数：397

定价：GBP66.00

装帧：Hardcover

ISBN：9780520234086

内容简介
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The most striking feature of Wutong, the preeminent God of Wealth in late imperial China, was the deity's diabolical character. Wutong was perceived not as a heroic figure or paragon of noble qualities but rather as an embodiment of humanity's basest vices, greed and lust, a maleficent demon who preyed on the weak and vulnerable. In "The Sinister Way", Richard von Glahn examines the emergence and evolution of the Wutong cult within the larger framework of the historical development of Chinese popular or vernacular religion – as opposed to institutional religions such as Buddhism or Daoism. Von Glahn's study, spanning three millennia, gives due recognition to the morally ambivalent and demonic aspects of divine power within the common Chinese religious culture.

作者简介
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Richard von Glahn is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the coeditor of The Song-Yuan-Ming Transition in Chinese History (2003) and the author of Fountain of Fortune: Money and Monetary Policy in China, 1000-1700 (California, 1996) and The Country of Streams and Grottoes: Expansion, Settlement, and the Civilizing of the Sichuan Frontier in Song Times (1987).

目录
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List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

1. Ancestors, Ghosts, and Gods in Ancient China 19

2. The Han Cult of the Dead and Salvific Religion 45

3. Shanxiao: Mountain Goblins 78

4. Plague Demons and Epidemic Gods 98

5. The Song Transformation of Chinese Religious Culture 130

6. Wutong: From Demon to Deity 180

7. The Enchantment of Wealth 222

Conclusion 257

Abbreviations 267

Notes 269

Bibliography 323

Glossary 361

Index 371

评论 ······

在經濟史的視角下來研究五通神的變遷是一種很有說服力又大膽的做法，但除了這一章之外，這種視角就只在宋代變革那一章比較適用了。整本書很有野心，可以說提出了好幾個宗教個案研究的所謂範式，但章節之間的關係不大，且時間跨度較遠，總體來說沒有酣暢淋漓的閱讀體驗。（中譯本也刷了一遍，還是不錯的。）

使用《夷坚志》研究宋代人的祖先观念与凡人成神的神灵塑造，其中涉及大量的民间信仰，如山魈、瘟神、五通【五通、五显、五鬼、五祀要分清，万志英先生没写清】，并且揭示宗教文化背后隐含的财富观念。

以文证史可以吗? 万大师都用了应该就可以了吧……

五通神的故事真正体现了丰富的民间想象力

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