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Week 6 Religion

Week 6 Religion. The Religious Culture of Everyday Life in Late Imperial Jinhua What is Religion? Three Case Studies Changes over Time. Religion = zongjiao 宗教. What is Religion?.

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Week 6 Religion

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  1. Week 6 Religion • The Religious Culture of Everyday Life in Late Imperial Jinhua • What is Religion? • Three Case Studies • Changes over Time

  2. Religion = zongjiao宗教

  3. What is Religion? • “(1) a system of symbols which acts to (2) establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in men by (3) formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and (4) clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality that (5) the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic” – Clifford Geertz • Talal Asad’s critique

  4. What is Religion? • Assumptions • Practices • Institutions that seek to impose order

  5. Historical Changes • Formation of the bureacratic metaphor mirrors expansion of state power • Commercialization of religious mentalities

  6. Case Study 2: Lord Hu • Hu Ze (963-1039) • Mt. Fangyan

  7. Case Study 3: Great Immortal Huang • Huang Chuping (Jin dynasty – c3) • Ge Hong (284-364) • Gazetteer of Red Pine Mountain (c13)

  8. Assumptions • The human world is situated between and interacts with Heaven and Earth • Various categories of beings inhabit world of spirits, and can move to and from human world • The world of the spirits is organized like the human bureaucracy BUT • There is a wide range of ways of interacting with the gods • Gods and cults map an alternative version of space and locale

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