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Way and Byway: Taoism, Local Religion, and Models of Divinity in Sung and
Robert Hymes
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| #2603734 in Books | 2002-01-07 | 2002-01-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.88 x6.00l,1.12 | File type: PDF | 444 pages||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| A very fun read|By X. Zu|In this monograph, Robert Hymes expands his thesis in "Personal Relations and Bureaucratic Hierarchy in Chinese Religion: Evidence from the Song Dynasty" in Unruly Gods: Divinity and Society in China into a fully developed theory of Chinese religiosity: the human-god relation is organized according to both the well-known bureaucratic model and the perso|From the Inside Flap|
"Only Robert Hymes could have produced such a vivid, fascinating portrait of a Taoist mountain, with its immortals, its clergy, and its devotees. Extensive translations of poetry, ghost stories, and canonical sources make it possible fo
Using a combination of newly mined Sung sources and modern ethnography, Robert Hymes addresses questions that have perplexed China scholars in recent years. Were Chinese gods celestial officials, governing the fate and fortunes of their worshippers as China's own bureaucracy governed their worldly lives? Or were they personal beings, patrons or parents or guardians, offering protection in exchange for reverence and sacrifice?
To answer these questions Hymes ...
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