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China : a religious state

By John Lagerwey

Book information

Publisher
Hong Kong University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
978-988-8028-03-0, 978-988-8028-04-7, 9789882205512, 9882205518, 9888028030
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
20 MB (20676539 bytes)
Series
Understanding China
Pages
viii, 237 pages\246
Time added
2014-11-04 21:00:00

Description

The Chinese state has always been a religious one, in which pantheons and rituals were central political concerns. But while the state regularly refined its definition of orthodoxy, Chinese local society worshiped gods of its own choosing and organized itself autonomously in geomantic space, according to a local festival calendar.

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