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This volume grew out of a 1990 conference organized by the Chinese Popular Culture Project. The five papers included here address the distinction between popular religion as ritual practice and as textual scripture. Two large themes are the never-ending literati campaign to reform the religious practices and beliefs of ordinary people, and the blurring of the line between religion and entertainment.
Price: $20.00
Pages: 282
Publisher: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Imprint: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Series: Chinese Popular Culture Project
Publication Date:
01 January 1995
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780962432736
Format: Paperback
David G. Johnson is professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include premodern China and traditional Chinese popular culture. He is the co-author of Domesticated Deities and Auspicious Emblems (IEAS, 1992) and the author of Spectacle and Sacrifice: The Ritual Foundations of Village Life in North China (Harvard University Press, 2010).
Education: A.B. at Harvard College; Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley
Introduction
Rituals and Scriptures of the Stove Cult
Robert L. Chard
Mu-lien in Pao-chuan: The Performance Context and Religious Meaning of the Yu-ming Pao-ch'uan
David Johnson
The Liturgies for Sacrifices to Ancestors in Successive Versions of the Family Rituals
Patricia Ebrey
The Cult of the Wu-t'ung / Wu-hsien in History and Fiction: The Religious Roots of the Journey to the South
Ursula-Angelika Cedzich
Language Adaptation in Taoist Liturgical Texts
Chinfa Lein
Glossary- Index
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