ISBN:
9789004331402
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (190 pages)
Series Statement:
Religion in Chinese societies volume 11
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Wu, Junqing, 1984 - Mandarins and heretics
Dissertation note:
Dissertation University of London 2014
Keywords:
Religion and state History
;
Cults History
;
Sects History
;
Religion and politics History
;
Cults
;
Religion and politics
;
Religion and state
;
Sects
;
China
;
China Religion
;
History
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Hochschulschrift
;
China
;
Volksreligion
;
Religiöse Gruppe
;
Religionspolitik
;
Religiöse Verfolgung
;
Häresie
;
Geschichtsschreibung
Abstract:
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Mandarin Wine in Western Wineskins: Terminological Problems -- A Pre-history: Black Magic and Messianism in Early Political and Legal Discourse -- Landscape of Late Imperial Religious Life -- Black Magic in the Heresy Construct -- Messianism in the Heresy Construct -- Victims of the Heresy Construct -- Heresy in the Modern Era: Transmission and Transformation -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
In Mandarins and Heretics , Wu Junqing explores the denunciation and persecution of lay religious groups in late imperial (14th to 20th century) China. These groups varied greatly in their organisation and teaching, yet in official state records they are routinely portrayed as belonging to the same esoteric tradition, stigmatised under generic labels such as “White Lotus” and “evil teaching”, and accused of black magic, sedition and messianic agitation. Wu Junqing convincingly demonstrates that this “heresy construct” was not a reflection of historical reality but a product of the Chinese historiographical tradition, with its uncritical reliance on official sources. The imperial heresy construct remains influential in modern China, where it contributes to shaping policy towards unlicensed religious groups
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1163/9789004331402
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