作者：JohnLagerwey
出版社：HongKongUniversityPress
副标题：AReligiousState
出版年：2010-4-6
页数：248
定价：USD20.00
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9789888028030
内容简介
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Over the last forty years, our vision of Chinese culture and history has been transformed by the discovery of the role of religion in Chinese state-making and in local society. The Daoist religion, in particular, long despised as "superstitious," has recovered its place as "the native higher religion." But while the Chinese state tried from the fifth century on to construct an orthodoxy based on Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism, local society everywhere carved out for itself its own geomantically defined space and organized itself around local festivals in honor of gods of its own choosing – gods who were often invented and then represented by illiterate mediums. Looking at China from the point of view of elite or popular culture therefore produces very different results.
John Lagerwey has done extensive fieldwork on local society and its festivals. This book represents a first attempt to use this new research to integrate top-down and bottom-up views of Chinese society, culture, and history. It should be of interest to a wide range of China specialists, students of religion and popular culture, as well as participants in the ongoing interdisciplinary dialogue between historians and anthropologists.
"China: A Religious State is a pathbreaking overview of Chinese religious traditions that represents the fruition of three decades of research. It is also noteworthy for its solid interdisciplinary approach, with the author convincingly demonstrating the importance of ethnography in the study of Chinese communal religions." – Paul Katz, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
"China: A Religious State is in its fundamental ideas no less than brilliant. It constitutes a redefinition of the intellectual boundaries artificially drawn around the official vision of history that has so long dominated Chinese studies. Professor Lagerwey offers a much needed integral vision of Chinese society and religion." – Mark Meulenbeld, University of Wisconsin-Madison
作者简介
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John Lagerwey is a professor of Daoist history at the ?cole Pratique des Hautes ?tudes and of Chinese studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is author of Taoist Ritual in Chinese Society and History and editor of the thirty-volume "Traditional Hakka Society Series" as well as the recently published four-volume set Early Chinese Religion.
目录
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Preface p. vii
Introduction p. 1
Chapter 1 A Brief History of the Pantheon: Ancestors and Gods in State and Local Religion and Politics p. 19
Chapter 2 Daoist Ritual in Social and Historical Perspective p. 57
Chapter 3 Festivals in Southeastern China p. 95
Chapter 4 On the Rational Character of Local Religion p. 153
Concluding Reflections p. 171
Notes p. 179
Bibliography p. 209
Index p. 223
评论 ······
该书是劳格文对“汉人民间信仰的内在逻辑”的最新回答：将民间信仰置于“姓氏村落”的空间中进行考察，发掘作为自然资源的风水是如何被神话和传说嵌合到宗族发展史中，也就体现出具体时空中人群争夺贫乏的“机会”的结果被合理化，并且以宗教仪式来重现，书写或再现特定姓氏在特定区域的历史。【在劳格文调查最着力的江西、福建客家聚集区的地方志里有很多争风水的传说故事；P103提到宗教仪式的“文/武”之分】
透过民间宗教看中国人的内心世界与信仰空间
导师的书，很有情怀的scholarship，但也是很ideological的
导师的书，很有情怀的scholarship，但也是很ideological的
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