作者：RobertFordCampany
出版社：UniversityofHawaiiPress
副标题：AsceticsandSocialMemoryinEarlyMedievalChina
出版年：2009-3-11
页数：300
定价：USD48.00
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9780824833336
内容简介
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By the middle of the third century B.C.E. in China there were individuals who sought to become transcendents (xian)–deathless, godlike beings endowed with supernormal powers. This quest for transcendence became a major form of religious expression and helped lay the foundation on which the first Daoist religion was built. Both xian and those who aspired to this exalted status in the centuries leading up to 350 C.E. have traditionally been portrayed as secretive and hermit-like figures. This groundbreaking study offers a very different view of xian-seekers in late classical and early medieval China. It suggests that transcendence did not involve a withdrawal from society but rather should be seen as a religious role situated among other social roles and conceived in contrast to them. Robert Campany argues that the much-discussed secrecy surrounding ascetic disciplines was actually one important way in which practitioners presented themselves to others. He contends, moreover, that many adepts were not socially isolated at all but were much sought after for their power to heal the sick, divine the future, and narrate their exotic experiences. The book moves from a description of the roles of xian and xian-seekers to an account of how individuals filled these roles, whether by their own agency or by others'–or, often, by both. Campany summarizes the repertoire of features that constituted xian roles and presents a detailed example of what analyses of those cultural repertoires look like. He charts the functions of a basic dialectic in the self-presentations of adepts and examines their narratives and relations with others, including family members and officials. Finally, he looks athagiographies as attempts to persuade readers as to the identities and reputations of past individuals.
作者简介
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康儒博（Robert Ford Campany），美国芝加哥大学博士，范德堡大学亚洲研究和宗教学教授。研究领域为公元前三世纪至公元六世纪的中国宗教史，以及宗教的跨文化比较。除本书（2009）外，还著有《述异：中国中古早期的志怪小说》（1996）、《与天地齐寿：葛洪<神仙传>翻译与研究》（2002）、《冥祥：中国中古早期的佛教灵应故事》（2012）等。
目录
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Acknowledgments • xi
Introduction • xiii
Chapter 1 Bringing Transcendents Down to Earth • 1
Chapter 2 The Transcendent’s Cultural Repertoire • 39
Chapter 3 Deeper Repertoire Analysis: “Avoiding Grains” • 62
Chapter 4 Secret Arts, Manifest Wonders • 88
Chapter 5 Verbal Self-Presentation and Audience Response • 130
Chapter 6 Adepts and Their Communities • 151
Chapter 7 Adepts, Their Families, and the Imperium • 186
Chapter 8 Hagiographic Persuasions • 216
Epilogue • 259
Bibliography • 267
Index • 291
评论 ······
去年读过，可一点印象都没有了。今年又被assign了前两个章节，配合神仙传一起看，有些新感触。Campany 基本在用社会学/人类学的方法来研究中国古代宗教，他希望跳出对神仙传记的真假之辩，而研究其中所反映的collective mentality。由此引申，关于仙的传说故事就成了民族志式的一手材料，构成了xian-hood的repertoire. 道理都说得通，但如何在解构故事的文化元素与保持叙…
enmesh the making of transcendence within the social milieu – the presentation of xian-hood to others.
my theory repertoire!
Making transcendents, in some cases under the pretense of individual, is argubly a social, narrative and textual process.
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