ISBN:
9780190459789
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (249 pages)
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
393/.930951
Keywords:
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Confucian--China--History--To 1500
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This study examines how political and legal disputes regarding the performance of death rituals contributed to shape a revival of Confucianism in eleventh-century Northern Song China.
Abstract:
Cover -- Death Rituals and Politics in Northern Song China z -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Adaptation of Ancestral Ritual to Serve the Royal Imaginary -- 2. "How Does Heaven Come to Speak?": The Contesting Discourse and the Revival of Confucian Death Rituals -- 3. Ordering Society through Confucian Rituals -- 4. Social Imaginaries and Politics in the Narratives on the World-beyond and the Supernatural -- 5. Burial: A Contested Site for Social Imaginaries -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
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