Society and the Supernatural in Song China 9780824864361
Society and the Supernatural in Song China is at once a meticulous examination of spirit possession and exorcism in the
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English Pages 368 Year 2001
Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. Therapeutic Movements in the Song: Texts
3. New Therapeutic Movements in the Song: Practitioners
4. The Cult of the Black Killer
5. The Daoist Ritual Master and Child-Mediums
6. Tantric Exorcists and Child-Mediums
7. Daoist Priests, Confucian Literati, and Child-Mediums
8. Spirit-Possession and the Grateful Dead: Daoist and Buddhist Mortuary Ritual in the Song
9. The Syncretic Field of Chinese Religion
Appendix: Huanglu jiao and Shuilu zhai
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. Therapeutic Movements in the Song: Texts
3. New Therapeutic Movements in the Song: Practitioners
4. The Cult of the Black Killer
5. The Daoist Ritual Master and Child-Mediums
6. Tantric Exorcists and Child-Mediums
7. Daoist Priests, Confucian Literati, and Child-Mediums
8. Spirit-Possession and the Grateful Dead: Daoist and Buddhist Mortuary Ritual in the Song
9. The Syncretic Field of Chinese Religion
Appendix: Huanglu jiao and Shuilu zhai
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
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- Edward L. Davis
