Subject: China--Religion--Congresses

Facets of Taoism : essays in Chinese religion
AuthorInternational Conference on Taoist Studies (2nd : 1972 : Chino, Japan)Welch, HolmesSeidel, Anna K.
PlaceNew Haven, CT
PublisherYale University Press
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook (Proceedings)
Series
ShelfReading Room
Call NumberBL1899.5 I57 1972
Description301 p. ; 24 cm.
NoteFacets of Taoism : essays in Chinese religion / edited by Holmes Welch, Anna Seidel.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: The ideology of the T'ai-ing ching / Max Kaltenmark -- Religious Taoism and popular religion from the second to seventh centuries / Rolf A. Stein -- Local cults around Mount Lu at the time of Sun En's rebellion / Hisayuki Miyakawa -- Kou Chin-chih and the Taoist theocracy at the northern Wei Court, 425-451 / Richard B. Mather -- On the alchemy of T'ao Hung-ching / Michel Strickmann -- The Chinese belief in baleful stars / Ching-lang Hou -- Taoist monastic life / Yoshitoyo Yoshioka -- The formation of the Taoist canon / Ninji Ōfuchi -- Taoist studies in Japan / Tadao Sakai and Tetsurō Noguchi.
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ISBN0300016956
LCCN7728034
Religion and ritual in Chinese society. [中國社會之宗教與儀式]
AuthorWolf, Arthur P.
PlaceTaibei 臺北
PublisherRainbow-Bridge Book Co. 虹橋書店
CollectionRicci Institute Library [ASCC]
Edition
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook (Conference Proceedings)
Series
ShelfReading Room
Call NumberBL1810.R44 1977
Descriptionxii, 377 p. ; 24 cm.
NoteReligion and ritual in Chinese society / [contributors, Emily M. Ahern and others] ; edited by Arthur P. Wolf.
Reprint of 1974 Stanford University press edition.
Title in Chinese at head of title page, cover, and colophon: 中國社會之宗教與儀式.
Online access via Gleeson Library Ignacio.

Consists chiefly of papers presented at a conference sponsored by the Subcommittee on Research on Chinese Society of the Joint Committee on Contemporary China and held at the Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, Calif., Oct. 11-15, 1971.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-358) and index.

On the sociological study of Chinese religion / Maurice Freedman -- Religion and ritual in Lukang / Donald R. Deglopper -- Religious organization in the history of a Chinese town / Wang Shih-Ch'ing -- Village alliance temples in Hong Kong / John A. Brim -- Domestic and communal worship in Taiwan / Stephan Feuchtwang -- Gods, ghosts, and ancestors / Arthur P. Wolf -- Taiwanese architecture and the supernatural / Wang Sung-Hsing -- When a ghost becomes a god / C. Stevan Harrell -- Cantonese shamanism / Jack M. Potter -- Cosmic antagonisms: a mother-child syndrome / Marjorie Topley -- Ancestor worship and burial practices / H.G.H. Nelson -- Affines and the rituals of kinship ./ Emily M. Ahern -- The written memorial in Taoist ceremonies / Kristofer M. Schipper -- Orthodoxy and heterodoxy in Taoist ritual / Michael Saso -- Afterword / Robert J. Smith.

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