1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465927503321

Autore

Kang Xiaofei

Titolo

Contesting the Yellow Dragon : ethnicity, religion, and the state in the Sino-Tibetan borderland / / by Xiaofei Kang and Donald S. Sutton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

90-04-31923-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (505 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Religion in Chinese Societies, , 1877-6264 ; ; Volume 10

Disciplina

951/.3805

Soggetti

Religion and politics - China - Sichuan Sheng - History

Social change - China - Sichuan Sheng - History

Borderlands - China - History

Borderlands - China - Tibet Autonomous Region - History

Electronic books.

Sichuan Sheng (China) Ethnic relations Political aspects History

Sichuan Sheng (China) Politics and government

Jin'an (Sichuan Sheng, China) History

Huanglong (Sichuan Sheng, China) History

China Relations China Tibet Autonomous Region

Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Relations China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures and Photographs -- Abbreviations -- Note on Ming shilu and Qing shilu -- Note on Tibetan Terms -- Introduction -- Garrison City in the Ming: Indigenes and the State in Greater Songpan -- Qing Songpan: Recovery, Over-extension and Disaster -- Guns, Gold, Gown, and Poppy: Ethnic Frontier in a Failing Republic -- Sharing a Sacred Center: Conch Mountain of the East, Yellow Dragon, and Chinese and Tibetan Culture -- Songpan, the State and Social Revolution, 1950–78 -- Opening Up the Borderland I: The Politics of Tourist Development and Environmental Protection -- Opening Up the Borderland II: Ethnicity for Tourists -- Contesting the Yellow Dragon in the Age of Reform: Local



Initiatives and Responses -- Ethnoreligion, Ethnic Identity and Regional Consciousness at Songpan -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Religious Activities in the Songpan Region -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Tibetan Glossary -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Winner of the 2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award This book is the first long-term study of the Sino-Tibetan borderland. It traces relationships and mutual influence among Tibetans, Chinese, Hui Muslims, Qiang and others over some 600 years, focusing on the old Chinese garrison city of Songpan and the nearby religious center of Huanglong, or Yellow Dragon. Combining historical research and fieldwork, Xiaofei Kang and Donald Sutton examine the cultural politics of northern Sichuan from early Ming through Communist revolution to the age of global tourism, bringing to light creative local adaptations in culture, ethnicity and religion as successive regimes in Beijing struggle to control and transform this distant frontier.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783622603321

Autore

Davies Jon <1939-, >

Titolo

Death, burial and rebirth in the religions of antiquity / / Jon Davies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999

ISBN

1-134-79271-9

0-203-28864-5

1-280-33090-2

0-203-03050-8

1-134-79272-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Collana

Religion in the first Christian centuries

Disciplina

291.2/3/093

Soggetti

Death - Religious aspects - History of doctrines

Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient

Future life - History of doctrines

Middle East Religion

Rome Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-239) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Death, Burial and Rebirth in the Religions of Antiquity; Copyright Page; Contents; List of plates; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Death in the Ancient Near East; 1. Osiris and Isis: The life-theology of Ancient Egypt; 2. Zoroaster, Ahura Mazda and Ahriman; 3. Canaanites and Mesopotamians; 4. Mere Texts or living realities?: The possible influence of the older thanatologies on Judaism and Christianity; Part II: From caves and rock-cut tombs to Judaism; 5. The general archaeology of the Ancient Near East; 6. Judaism: Towards the common era

7. Burying the Jewish dead 8. Good luck with your resurrection!: Opening the heavens and raising the dead; Part III: Romans and Greeks: A theodicy of good fortune?; 9. Roman and Greek philosophies of death; 10. Roman religion and Roman funerals; 11. Ovid's 'ever-varying forms': Greek mythologies, sarcophagi and the boundaries of mortality; 12. Ovid's 'bonds of Love and duty': Funerals, epitaphs, orations and death in the arena; Part IV: Christians, martyrs, soldiers, saints; 13. Christian burial; 14. The nature of martyrdom; Epilogue

Sacrificial living and sacrificial dying: Christians in the world Appendix; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Death, Burial and Rebirth in the Religions of Antiquity, Jon Davies charts the significance of death to the emerging religious cults in the pre-Christian and early Christian world. He analyses the varied burial rituals and examines the different notions of the afterlife. Among the areas covered are:* Osiris and Isis: the life theology of Ancient Egypt* burying the Jewish dead* Roman religion and Roman funerals* Early Christian burial* the nature of martyrdom.Jon Davies also draws on the sociological theory of Max Weber to present a comprehensive introduction