The sinister way [[electronic resource] ] : the divine and the demonic in Chinese religious culture / / Richard von Glahn
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Von Glahn Richard
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| Titolo: |
The sinister way [[electronic resource] ] : the divine and the demonic in Chinese religious culture / / Richard von Glahn
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, CA, : University of California Press, 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (401 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 299.5/1121 |
| 299.51121 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Demonology - China - History |
| Soggetto geografico: | China Religion |
| Soggetto non controllato: | afterlife |
| ancestors | |
| ancient china | |
| china | |
| chinese history | |
| chinese jia jiao | |
| chinese religion | |
| christianity | |
| comparative religions | |
| cult | |
| death | |
| deity | |
| demon | |
| demonic | |
| demonology | |
| demons | |
| divine power | |
| divinity | |
| folk belief | |
| folk religion | |
| folklore | |
| ghosts | |
| goblins | |
| god of wealth | |
| gods | |
| greed | |
| han cult | |
| imperial china | |
| lust | |
| nonfiction | |
| popular religion | |
| possession | |
| religion | |
| religious culture | |
| salvific religion | |
| shanxiao | |
| sin | |
| spirit of the dead | |
| spirituality | |
| supernatural | |
| vernacular religion | |
| vice | |
| wutong cult | |
| wutong | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Ancestors, ghosts, and Gods in ancient China -- The Han cult of the dead and salvific religion -- Shanxiao: mountain goblins -- Plague demons and epidemic Gods -- The song transformation of Chinese religious culture -- Wutong: from demon to deity -- The enchantment of wealth. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The most striking feature of Wutong, the preeminent God of Wealth in late imperial China, was the deity's diabolical character. Wutong was perceived not as a heroic figure or paragon of noble qualities but rather as an embodiment of humanity's basest vices, greed and lust, a maleficent demon who preyed on the weak and vulnerable. In The Sinister Way, Richard von Glahn examines the emergence and evolution of the Wutong cult within the larger framework of the historical development of Chinese popular or vernacular religion-as opposed to institutional religions such as Buddhism or Daoism. Von Glahn's study, spanning three millennia, gives due recognition to the morally ambivalent and demonic aspects of divine power within the common Chinese religious culture. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The sinister way |
| ISBN: | 9786612356834 |
| 0-520-92877-6 | |
| 1-282-35683-6 | |
| 1-59734-901-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910782929103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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