Religion of the Han Empire

Postmortem Transformation, Immortality, and the Rise of Daoism

Sheng Jiang (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

266 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-72939-1 (ISBN)

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This is the first historical study using Han tombs as expression carriers of religious beliefs to reconstruct the history of religious Daoism of the Han empire.

By examining the tomb images and artifacts from a religious perspective, combined with a cognitive approach that strives to uncover the essentials of the Han belief system, the author convincingly shows how Han belief represented the dimension of faith in the national power structure while reconstructing the history of religious Daoism at the time. This is the first historical study on the subject using this new methodology.

Sheng Jiang, Ph.D.(1995), is Chair Professor of History at Shandong University. Based on his methodology of “understanding history through religious studies,” he has published monographs and many articles on the ancient history of China, including “Textual and Iconographic Evidence of the First Emperor of the Han: Imperial Power and Religious Authority” (Journal of Literature, History and Philosophy, No.3: 57-95, 2023) which is selected “Top Ten Best Papers in Historical Studies in China 2023” by CASS.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.09.2025
Reihe/Serie	Studies on East Asian Religions ; 13
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	571 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
ISBN-10	90-04-72939-9 / 9004729399
ISBN-13	978-90-04-72939-1 / 9789004729391
Zustand	Neuware