ENGLISH

Introduction Feng Shui

By Ole Bruun

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
9780521863520, 9780521682176, 9780511478987, 052186352X, 0521682177
LCC
BF1779.F4 B79 2008
Open Library ID
OL10436307M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1996958 bytes)
Series
Introduction to Religion
Edition
1
Pages
220\220
Topic
Religion
Library
torrents.ru tech collections 2009-11-14
Time added
2010-01-11 02:35:34

Description

Feng Shui has been known in the West for the last 150 years but has mostly been regarded as a primitive superstition. During the modern period successive regimes in China have suppressed its practice. However, in the last few decades Feng Shui has become a global spiritual movement with professional associations, thousands of titles published on the subject, countless websites devoted to it and millions of users. In this book Ole Bruun explains Feng Shui's Chinese origins and meanings as well as its more recent Western interpretations and global appeal. Unlike the abundance of popular manuals, his Introduction treats Chinese Feng Shui as an academic subject, bridging religion, history and sociology. Individual chapters explain: • the Chinese religious-philosophical background • Chinese uses in rural and urban areas • the history of Feng Shui's reinterpretation in the West • environmental perspectives and other issues

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