ISBN:
1438453094
,
9781438453095
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Gendering Chinese religion
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Gendering Chinese religion
DDC:
200.82/0951
Keywords:
Taoist women Congresses
;
Konferenzschrift 2011
;
Konferenzschrift
;
China
;
Religion
;
Frau
;
China
;
Religion
;
Geschlechtsidentität
Description / Table of Contents:
""Contents""; ""List of Tables and Figures""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""The Development of the Field""; ""Revisiting Women, Gender, and Religion in China""; ""Problems and Prospects""; ""Notes""; ""Part I. Restoring Female Religiosity and Subjectivity""; ""1. Tang Women in the Transformation of Buddhist Filiality""; ""Introduction""; ""The Manifestation of Buddhist Filiality in Medieval China""; ""Filial Buddhist Daughters""; ""The Mother�s Role in Defining Buddhist Filiality""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""
Description / Table of Contents:
""2. Writing Oneself into the Tradition: The Autobiographical Sermon of Chan Master Jizong Xingche (b. 1606)""""The Context: Women Monastics in the Seventeenth-Century Revival of Linji Chan""; ""Woman Chan Master Jizong Xingche and Her Autobiographical Sermon""; ""Concluding Remarks""; ""Notes""; ""3. Making Religion, Making the New Woman: Reading Su Xuelin�s Autobiographical Novel Jixin (Thorny Heart)""; ""Introduction""; ""Mother-Daughter Love: “Feudal� Burden or Alternative Nationalism?""; ""Whose Catholicism? Whose Confucianism? Whose Religion?""
Description / Table of Contents:
""The “Woman Question� and the Dissenting Voice of Su Xuelin""""(Women) (Re)Making Religion in Modern China""; ""Notes""; ""Part II. Redefining Identity and Tradition""; ""4. The Identity of Tang Daoist Priestesses""; ""Introduction""; ""Sexual Practice in Daoist Tradition and the Changing of Gender Relations""; ""The Cult of Erotic Goddesses and the Self-Empowerment of Daoist Priestesses""; ""Educational Level and Socioeconomic Status of Tang Daoist Priestesses""; ""Concluding Remarks""; ""Notes""
Description / Table of Contents:
""5. Revisiting White-haired Girl: Women, Gender, and Religion in Communist Revolutionary Propaganda""""Introduction""; ""A Brief History of White-haired Girl""; ""From Anti-Superstition to National Myth""; ""From a Goddess to a Ghost""; ""Gender and Religion in Xi�er�s Salvation""; ""Victimization and Collective Emotion in the Creation of Political Religiosity""; ""Conclusion: From Anti-Superstition to the Cult of Mao""; ""Notes""; ""6. Negotiating between Two Patriarchies: Chinese Christian Women in Postcolonial Hong Kong""; ""Introduction""; ""Out of Chinese Patriarchy""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Confronting Christian Patriarchy""""Manipulating Space and Time""; ""Reinterpretation of Tradition""; ""Conclusion: Between Two Patriarchies""; ""Notes""; ""Part III. Recovering Bodily Differences""; ""7. Birthing the Self: Metaphor and Transformation in Medieval Daoism""; ""Introduction""; ""Common Ideas of Embryology""; ""Daoist Embryology of the Perfected""; ""Producing the Ruddy Infant""; ""Reversing Gestation: Unknotting the Knots of Death""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""8. Female Alchemy: Transformation of a Gendered Body""; ""Introduction""; ""A Brief History of nÃ?dan Texts""
Description / Table of Contents:
""The Rise of nÃ?dan and Its Social Context""
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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