Religion and Folk Belief in Chinese Literature and Theatre
This edited volume offers a historical, textual and ethnoanthropological exploration of the meaning and value of religion and ritual and their form and function in relation to Chinese literature and theatre. The term ‘theatre’ is used here to refer broadly to various types of live performances—theat...
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| description | This edited volume offers a historical, textual and ethnoanthropological exploration of the meaning and value of religion and ritual and their form and function in relation to Chinese literature and theatre. The term ‘theatre’ is used here to refer broadly to various types of live performances—theatrical and non-theatrical; sacred and profane— presented in a religious setting, thus including ritual performance and oral performance. Likewise, literature in this volume broadly encompasses both written and oral literatures, including drama, poetry, hagiography, legend, mythology and prosimetric narrative or chantefable for telling and singing. The contributors to the issue draw on a wide range of materials from historical, philosophical and literary texts to field reports and archaeological finds to archived documents and local gazetteers to personal interviews and participant observations. While all the essays are collected under the theme of ‘Religion and Folk Belief in Chinese Literature and Theatre’, they differ from each other in subject matter, source material and research approach. Rich and varied as they are, these essays fall into two main categories, namely, a historical approach to religion and ritual recorded in (written and visual) texts and an integrated approach that combines historical inquiries into written and visual texts with ethnoanthropological fieldwork on religious rituals and associated performances. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-944792024-04-08T19:53:59Z Religion and Folk Belief in Chinese Literature and Theatre Zhao, Xiaohuan Cheng 誠 cheng 成 sincerity completion religion ritual Classical Confucianism literature baojuan (precious scrolls) telling scriptures scroll recitation chinese folklore popular religion buddhist narrative China Xiud Yax Lus Qim (Yalu wang) Miao (Hmong) ethnic group oral performance ritual practice sorcery and witchcraft collective memory cultural heritage state presence temple festival temple theatre Jiacun Double-Fourth Temple Festival the Primordial Sovereign of the Morning Clouds (Bixia yuanjun) Shangdang Liaozhai zhiyi Daoism dramas Sichuan willow Yuan zaju shamanism legend metaphor Chinese religions Chinese literature Ming Deng Zhimo hagiography Lü Dongbin Xu Xun Sa Shoujian print culture Pei Yue poems Buddhism monks social association Miao culture performance studies performance ethnography indigenous studies folk traditions mythology the Queen Mother of the West (Xiwangmu) Han rhapsody (fu) Han paintings Hantomb stone reliefs the Wuliang Shrine bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs This edited volume offers a historical, textual and ethnoanthropological exploration of the meaning and value of religion and ritual and their form and function in relation to Chinese literature and theatre. The term ‘theatre’ is used here to refer broadly to various types of live performances—theatrical and non-theatrical; sacred and profane— presented in a religious setting, thus including ritual performance and oral performance. Likewise, literature in this volume broadly encompasses both written and oral literatures, including drama, poetry, hagiography, legend, mythology and prosimetric narrative or chantefable for telling and singing. The contributors to the issue draw on a wide range of materials from historical, philosophical and literary texts to field reports and archaeological finds to archived documents and local gazetteers to personal interviews and participant observations. While all the essays are collected under the theme of ‘Religion and Folk Belief in Chinese Literature and Theatre’, they differ from each other in subject matter, source material and research approach. Rich and varied as they are, these essays fall into two main categories, namely, a historical approach to religion and ritual recorded in (written and visual) texts and an integrated approach that combines historical inquiries into written and visual texts with ethnoanthropological fieldwork on religious rituals and associated performances. 2022-12-06T16:07:22Z 2022-12-06T16:07:22Z 2022 book ONIX_20221206_9783036554099_2 9783036554099 9783036554105 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/94479 eng image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/6303 https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/6303 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-0365-5410-5 10.3390/books978-3-0365-5410-5 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783036554099 9783036554105 270 Basel open access |
| spellingShingle | Cheng 誠 cheng 成 sincerity completion religion ritual Classical Confucianism literature baojuan (precious scrolls) telling scriptures scroll recitation chinese folklore popular religion buddhist narrative China Xiud Yax Lus Qim (Yalu wang) Miao (Hmong) ethnic group oral performance ritual practice sorcery and witchcraft collective memory cultural heritage state presence temple festival temple theatre Jiacun Double-Fourth Temple Festival the Primordial Sovereign of the Morning Clouds (Bixia yuanjun) Shangdang Liaozhai zhiyi Daoism dramas Sichuan willow Yuan zaju shamanism legend metaphor Chinese religions Chinese literature Ming Deng Zhimo hagiography Lü Dongbin Xu Xun Sa Shoujian print culture Pei Yue poems Buddhism monks social association Miao culture performance studies performance ethnography indigenous studies folk traditions mythology the Queen Mother of the West (Xiwangmu) Han rhapsody (fu) Han paintings Hantomb stone reliefs the Wuliang Shrine bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs Religion and Folk Belief in Chinese Literature and Theatre |
| title | Religion and Folk Belief in Chinese Literature and Theatre |
| title_full | Religion and Folk Belief in Chinese Literature and Theatre |
| title_fullStr | Religion and Folk Belief in Chinese Literature and Theatre |
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| title_short | Religion and Folk Belief in Chinese Literature and Theatre |
| title_sort | religion and folk belief in chinese literature and theatre |
| topic | Cheng 誠 cheng 成 sincerity completion religion ritual Classical Confucianism literature baojuan (precious scrolls) telling scriptures scroll recitation chinese folklore popular religion buddhist narrative China Xiud Yax Lus Qim (Yalu wang) Miao (Hmong) ethnic group oral performance ritual practice sorcery and witchcraft collective memory cultural heritage state presence temple festival temple theatre Jiacun Double-Fourth Temple Festival the Primordial Sovereign of the Morning Clouds (Bixia yuanjun) Shangdang Liaozhai zhiyi Daoism dramas Sichuan willow Yuan zaju shamanism legend metaphor Chinese religions Chinese literature Ming Deng Zhimo hagiography Lü Dongbin Xu Xun Sa Shoujian print culture Pei Yue poems Buddhism monks social association Miao culture performance studies performance ethnography indigenous studies folk traditions mythology the Queen Mother of the West (Xiwangmu) Han rhapsody (fu) Han paintings Hantomb stone reliefs the Wuliang Shrine bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs |
| topic_facet | Cheng 誠 cheng 成 sincerity completion religion ritual Classical Confucianism literature baojuan (precious scrolls) telling scriptures scroll recitation chinese folklore popular religion buddhist narrative China Xiud Yax Lus Qim (Yalu wang) Miao (Hmong) ethnic group oral performance ritual practice sorcery and witchcraft collective memory cultural heritage state presence temple festival temple theatre Jiacun Double-Fourth Temple Festival the Primordial Sovereign of the Morning Clouds (Bixia yuanjun) Shangdang Liaozhai zhiyi Daoism dramas Sichuan willow Yuan zaju shamanism legend metaphor Chinese religions Chinese literature Ming Deng Zhimo hagiography Lü Dongbin Xu Xun Sa Shoujian print culture Pei Yue poems Buddhism monks social association Miao culture performance studies performance ethnography indigenous studies folk traditions mythology the Queen Mother of the West (Xiwangmu) Han rhapsody (fu) Han paintings Hantomb stone reliefs the Wuliang Shrine bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs |
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