Ethnography of an Enchanted Land: Varieties of Religious Organization in China
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2026
Brill (Verlag)
9789004745506 (ISBN)
Brill (Verlag)
9789004745506 (ISBN)
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Based on thirty years of fieldwork and illustrated by 274 photos of the author, this book explores sacred space and time, lineages, temples, and gods in the social organization of villages and towns in pre-1949 Southeast China.
Based on thirty years of fieldwork in collaboration with local authors, this book is about the centrality of religious practices in the organization of pre-1949 Chinese society. With multiple concrete examples, it describes the role of geomancy and the festival calendar in the creation of sacred space and time in the villages and towns of four provinces in SE China. It shows as well the late imperial construction of large lineages and of village alliances built around central temples and the gods. Coming after the author’s China, a Religious State, it could be called China, a Religious Society.
Based on thirty years of fieldwork in collaboration with local authors, this book is about the centrality of religious practices in the organization of pre-1949 Chinese society. With multiple concrete examples, it describes the role of geomancy and the festival calendar in the creation of sacred space and time in the villages and towns of four provinces in SE China. It shows as well the late imperial construction of large lineages and of village alliances built around central temples and the gods. Coming after the author’s China, a Religious State, it could be called China, a Religious Society.
John Lagerwey. After a PhD in early Chinese literature at Harvard University (1975), John Lagerwey studied Daoism in Paris. He has published widely on Daoist ritual and local religion and organized major projects on Chinese religious and cultural history and the ethnography of Southeast China. His most recent book is Paradigm Shifts in Early and Modern Chinese Religion (Brill, 2019).
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 29.1.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4 China ; 39 |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-13 | 9789004745506 / 9789004745506 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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