Unruly gods : divinity and society in China /

Other Authors: Shahar, Meir.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiì Press, ©1996.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : gods and society in China / Meir Shahar and Robert P. Weller
  • Personal relations and bureaucratic hierarchy in Chinese religion : evidence from the Song dynasty / Robert Hymes
  • Enlightened alchemist or immoral immortal? The growth of Lü Dongbin's cult in late imperial China / Paul R. Katz
  • The Lady Linshui : how a woman became a goddess / Brigitte Baptandier
  • Myths, gods, and family relations / P. Steven Sangren
  • Vernacular fiction and the transmission of gods' cults in late Imperial China / Meir Shahar
  • Transmission in popular religion : the Jiajiang festival troupe of Southern Taiwan / Donald S. Sutton
  • Matricidal magistrates and gambling gods : weak states and strong spirits in China / Robert P. Weller.