Ritual Techniques for Creating a Divine Persona in Late Imperial China: The Case of Daoist Law Enforcer Lord Wang
Lord Wang (Wang lingguan 王靈官, Wang tianjun 王天君) is a ubiquitous god in late imperial and modern Chinese society, worshipped in different contexts, including temple processions, exorcistic rituals, monastic ordinations, and elite spirit-writing cults. This article argues that his divine persona remai...
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2022
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Journal of Chinese religions
Έτος: 2022, Τόμος: 50, Τεύχος: 1, Σελίδες: 45-76 |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
popular religion
B Baojuan (Κινεζική λογοτεχνία) B Daoism B elite religiosity B spirit-writing B Exorcism |
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| Σύνοψη: | Lord Wang (Wang lingguan 王靈官, Wang tianjun 王天君) is a ubiquitous god in late imperial and modern Chinese society, worshipped in different contexts, including temple processions, exorcistic rituals, monastic ordinations, and elite spirit-writing cults. This article argues that his divine persona remains coherent in these different contexts, and that a reason for this coherence is that he is made present to his many audiences through ritual techniques (controlled spirit-possession, ritual theater, spirit-writing) that are closely related to each other. |
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| ISSN: | 2050-8999 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Journal of Chinese religions
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