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Religion and Poetry in Medieval China: The Way and the Words book cover

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Religion and Poetry in Medieval China The Way and the Words

Edited By Gil Raz, Anna Shields Copyright 2024
268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge
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This volume of interdisciplinary essays examines the intersection of religion and literature in medieval China, focusing on the impact of Buddhism and Daoism on a wide range of elite and popular literary texts and religious practices in the 3rd-11th centuries CE. Drawing on the work of the interdisciplinary scholar Stephen Bokenkamp, the essays weave together the many cross-currents of religious,... Read more
Introduction (Gil Raz and Anna M. Shields), Part 1: Poetry, 1. Brushing Past Rainbows: Religion and Poetry in the Xu Mi Stele (Jonathan Pettit), 2.Li Bo and Hu Ziyang: Companions of the Way (Paul W. Kroll), 3.Gao Pian: Poet and Patron (Franciscus Verellen), 4.Traces of the Way: The Poetry of Divine Transcendence in the Northern Song Anthology Literature's Finest (Anna M. Shields), Part II: Visuality and Materiality, 1. A Reexamination of the Second Chapter of the Array of the Five Talismans (Wang Zongyu), 2. True Forms and True Faces: Daoist and Buddhist Discourse on Images (Gil Raz), Part III: Texts and Contexts, 1. After the Apocalypse: The Evolving Ethos of the Celestial Master Daoists (Terry Kleeman), 2. Shangqing Scriptures as Performative Texts (Robert Ford Company), 3. The Sutra in Forty-Two Chapters: Beyond the Buddhist Canon (James Robson), 4.Taking Stock: The Scholarship of Daoism in Recent Decades (John Lagerwey),Epilogue,Traversing the Golden Porte: Problems with Daoist Studies (Stephen R. Bokenkamp)

Biography

Gil Raz is Associate Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College specializing in the study of medieval Chinese religion. His book The Emergence of Daoism: Creation of Tradition (2012) and many publications examine Daoist notions of space and time, sexual practices, and religious interactions in medieval China. Anna M. Shields, Gordon Wu ’58 Professor of Chinese Studies, Princeton University, specializes in the literary history of the Tang through Northern Song. Her most recent book is One Who Knows Me: Friendship and Literary Culture in Mid-Tang China (2015); current research examines the reception of Tang literature, 10th-11th centuries.

The interdisciplinary nature of this volume allows for a more holistic understanding of medieval Chinese cultural practices. By exploring the confluence of poetry and religion, particularly Daoism and Buddhism, Raz and Shields provide new insights into how these traditions intersected and shaped each other in unexpected ways.,- Richard G. Wang, Journal of Chinese History, issue 681, 2024
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