1st Edition
Divine Justice Religion And The Development Of Chinese Legal Culture
By Paul R. Katz
Copyright 2009
240 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book considers the ways in which religious beliefs and practices have contributed to the formation of Chinese legal culture. It does so by describing two forms of overlap between religion and the law: the ideology of justice and the performance of judicial rituals.
One of the most important conceptual underpinnings of the Chinese ideology of justice is the belief in the inevitability... Read more
Introduction 1. The Development of the Judicial Underworld: A Comparative Perspective Background 2. The Judicial Continuum 3. Oaths and Chicken-beheading Rituals 4. Indictment Rituals 5. Trials of the Insane and Dressing as a Criminal 6. Judicial Rituals in Asian Colonial and Immigrant History 7. Judicial Rituals in Modern Taiwan 8. Case Study: The Dizang Abbey. Conclusion
Biography
Paul R. Katz is Research Fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica in Taiwan.
