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History of Cultic Images in China – The Domestic Statuary of Hunan
«Arrault’s comprehensive investigation of central Hunan religious and social practices is the first devoted entirely to the unique statuary and represents a major contribution to our understanding of local Chinese society."" - John Lagerwey, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
""This is a significant contribution to the study of religion and local society in China. The main focus of this book is a large collection of small wooden statues that had originally been installed on domestic altars throughout central Hunan province. This new vantage point helps to fill out our picture of the Chinese religious landscape and at the same time challenges many scholarly assumptions about the nature of Chinese religions—and the ways they have been conceptualized and categorized—from the sixteenth century to the present day"" - James Robson, Harvard University»
In the past twenty years, work on the local culture of central Hunan has been one of the most exciting sources for rethinking the nature and variety of Chinese local society. At the heart of this society is a kind of statuary found nowhere else in China-sculpted images of local people, primarily religious specialists of a wide range, but also parents and ancestors who, according to Confucian orthodoxy, should be represented by tablets, not statues. Les mer
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In the past twenty years, work on the local culture of central Hunan has been one of the most exciting sources for rethinking the nature and variety of Chinese local society. At the heart of this society is a kind of statuary found nowhere else in China-sculpted images of local people, primarily religious specialists of a wide range, but also parents and ancestors who, according to Confucian orthodoxy, should be represented by tablets, not statues. While the consecration ceremonies of these statues include rites that are common to all China, they are embedded in unique local ritual traditions. Based on two decades of international collaborative research, Alain Arrault focuses on some 4,000 of these statues and studies them on the basis of consecration certificates inserted in the statues, the earliest of which date to the sixteenth century.
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- Forlag
- The Chinese University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9789882371057
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 26 x 18 cm
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«Arrault’s comprehensive investigation of central Hunan religious and social practices is the first devoted entirely to the unique statuary and represents a major contribution to our understanding of local Chinese society."" - John Lagerwey, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
""This is a significant contribution to the study of religion and local society in China. The main focus of this book is a large collection of small wooden statues that had originally been installed on domestic altars throughout central Hunan province. This new vantage point helps to fill out our picture of the Chinese religious landscape and at the same time challenges many scholarly assumptions about the nature of Chinese religions—and the ways they have been conceptualized and categorized—from the sixteenth century to the present day"" - James Robson, Harvard University»
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