LEADER 04422nam 2200781Ia 450 001 9910817367403321 005 20240508155309.0 010 $a1-282-70658-6 010 $a9786612706585 010 $a3-11-022356-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110223569 035 $a(CKB)2670000000033150 035 $a(EBL)555764 035 $a(OCoLC)654029424 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000411920 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11250330 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000411920 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10357924 035 $a(PQKB)10098032 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC555764 035 $a(DE-B1597)37319 035 $a(OCoLC)659564674 035 $a(OCoLC)775644339 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110223569 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL555764 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10402644 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL270658 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000033150 100 $a20091117d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe anthropology of religion, charisma, and ghosts $eChinese lessons for adequate theory /$fStephan Feuchtwang 210 $aBerlin ;$aNew York $cW. de Gruyter$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (221 p.) 225 1 $aReligion and society ;$vv. 46 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-11-022355-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 201-210) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tChapter 1. Introduction -- $tPart 1. Religion -- $tChapter 2. 'Religion' and its historical transfer into China -- $tChapter 3. 'A Chinese religion exists' -- $tChapter 4. A theory of religious ritual as deference and communicative excess -- $tPart 2. Charisma -- $tChapter 5. The Organisation of Extravagance as Charismatic authority and Self-government -- $tChapter 6. Charismatic self-healing: a case of spirit-writing in Taiwan under Japanese occupation -- $tChapter 7. Charisma in China -- $tPart 3. Ghosts -- $tChapter 8. The avenging ghost -- $tChapter 9. Between temporalities: a case study of the transmission of loss in Taiwan -- $tChapter 10. Between death and life: a location of ghosts and demons -- $tChapter 11. 'Religion' in the government of the People's Republic of China: policy-led redefinition and openings in political space -- $t Backmatter 330 $aIt has been said that Chinese government was, until the republican period, government through li. Li is the untranslatable word covering appropriate conduct toward others, from the guest rituals of imperial diplomacy to the hospitality offered to guests in the homes of ordinary people. It also covers the centring of self in relation to the flows and objects in a landscape or a built environment, including the world beyond the spans of human and other lives. It is prevalent under the republican regimes of China and Taiwan in the forming and maintaining of personal relations, in the respect for ancestors, and especially in the continuing rituals of address to gods, of command to demons, and of charity to neglected souls. The concept of 'religion' does not grasp this, neither does the concept of 'ritual', yet li undoubtedly refers to a figuration of a universe and of place in the world as encompassing as any body of rite and magic or of any religion. Through studies of Chinese gods and ghosts this book challenges theories of religion based on a supreme god and that god's prophets, as well as those like Hinduism based on mythical figures from epics, and offers another conception of humanity and the world, distinct from that conveyed by the rituals of other classical anthropological theories. 410 0$aReligion and society (Hague, Netherlands) ;$v46. 606 $aRitual$zChina 606 $aGhosts$zChina 606 $aRitual$zTaiwan 606 $aGhosts$zTaiwan 607 $aChina$xReligion 607 $aTaiwan$xReligion 610 $aCharisma. 610 $aGhosts. 610 $aGods. 610 $aReligion. 610 $aRitual. 615 0$aRitual 615 0$aGhosts 615 0$aRitual 615 0$aGhosts 676 $a203/.80951 700 $aFeuchtwang$b Stephan$0740282 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817367403321 996 $aThe anthropology of religion, charisma, and ghosts$93975640 997 $aUNINA