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Religious Culture and Violence in Traditional China: Elements in Religion and Violence

Autor Barend ter Haar
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 mai 2019
The basis of Chinese religious culture, and with that many aspects of daily life, was the threat and fear of demonic attacks. These were inherently violent and could only be counteracted by violence as well - even if this reactive violence was masked by euphemisms such as execution, expulsion, exorcisms and so on. At the same time, violence was a crucial dimension of the maintenance of norms and values, for instance in sworn agreements or in beliefs about underworld punishment. Violence was also an essential aspect of expressing respect through sacrificial gifts of meat (and in an earlier stage of Chinese culture also human flesh) and through a culture of auto-mutilation and ritual suicide. At the same time, conventional indigenous terms for violence such as bao 暴 were not used for most of these practices since they were not experienced as such, but rather justified as positive uses of physical force.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781108706230
ISBN-10: 1108706231
Pagini: 75
Dimensiuni: 128 x 180 x 4 mm
Greutate: 0.08 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Elements in Religion and Violence

Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Preface; 1. Setting the stage; 2. What is violence?; 3. The demonological substrate; 4. Messianic and millenarian traditions; 5. The enforcement of norms and social values; 6. Sacrifice and its counter-discourse; 7. Self-inflicted violence; 8. Intra-religious conflicts; Concluding comments.

Descriere

Summarizes the most important aspects of the role of violence in Chinese religious culture.