1. Ethnic Identity and Daoist Identity in Traditional China

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Early Formations
6. 1. Ethnic Identity and Daoist Identity in Traditional China 23
7. 2. Confession of Sins and Awareness of Self in the Taiping jing 39
8. 3. “Opening the Way” Exorcism, Travel, and Soteriology in Early Daoist Mortuary Practice and Its Antecedents 58
9. Part II. Texts and Symbols
10. 4. Traditional Taxonomies and Revealed Texts in the Han 81
11. 5. Material Culture and the Dao Textiles, Boats, and Zithers in the Poetry of Yu Xuanji (844–868) 102
12. 6. A Mid-Ming Reappraisal of the Laozi The Case of Wang Dao 127
13. Part III. Lineages and Local Culture
14. 7. Arms and the Dao, 2 The Xu Brothers in Tea Country 149
15. 8. Identity and Lineage The Taiyi jinhua zongzhi and the Spirit-Writing Cult to Patriarch Lü in Qing China 165
16. 9. Manifestations of Lüzu in Modern Guangdong and Hong Kong The Rise and Growth of Spirit-Writing Cults 185
17. Part IV. Ritual Boundaries
18. 10. Fang Yankou and Pudu Translation, Metaphor, and Religious Identity 213
19. 11. Daoist Hand Signs and Buddhist Mudras 235
20. 12. Documents Used in Rituals of Merit in Taiwanese Daoism 256
21. 13. Offerings in Daoist Ritual 274
22. Glossary 295
23. Names of Authors Cited 309
24. Contributors 311
25. Index 315