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| List of Figures | ||
| Preface | ||
| Abbreviations | ||
| 1 | Introduction | 1 |
| Toward a History of the Everyday, Personal Religion of Ancient China | 1 | |
| Religion and Extra-human Powers: Working Definitions | 5 | |
| The Popular-Religion Paradigm in Earlier Research and Theory | 7 | |
| The Sources | 14 | |
| 2 | Roots of a Religion of Personal Welfare | 17 |
| Prelude | 17 | |
| The Religion of the Shang People | 23 | |
| The Religion of the Chou People | 29 | |
| 3 | Personal Welfare in the Context of Mantic Technique | 41 |
| Omens | 44 | |
| Divination | 48 | |
| Witchcraft and Exorcism | 52 | |
| Ghosts and Spirits | 53 | |
| Souls, Spirits, and the Abode of the Dead | 62 | |
| Summary | 66 | |
| 4 | Newly Discovered Daybooks and Everyday Religion | 69 |
| The Jih-shu or Daybooks | 69 | |
| Elements of Religion in the Classic of Mountains and Seas | 92 | |
| Jih-shu and Shan-hai-ching: Dealing with Domestic and Foreign Environments | 99 | |
| 5 | Emperors, Courtiers, and the Development of Official Cults | 103 |
| The Establishment of the Official Cult of the Ch'in Empire | 104 | |
| The Establishment of the Han Official Cult | 107 | |
| Personal Factors and Official Religion | 114 | |
| Reassessing Han Official Religion | 117 | |
| Conclusion | 120 | |
| 6 | Beliefs and Practices in Everyday Life of the Han Dynasty | 123 |
| Religious Activities Related to the Agricultural Cycle | 124 | |
| Religious Activities Related to the Life Cycle | 135 | |
| Religious Activities in Everyday Life | 143 | |
| Local Cults | 146 | |
| Omens and Portents | 152 | |
| 7 | Immortality, Soul, and the Netherworld | 157 |
| The Conceptions of Immortality and Soul | 157 | |
| Further Development of the Idea of the Netherworld | 165 | |
| Social Change, the Development of Burial Styles, and the Idea of the Netherworld | 176 | |
| 8 | Popular Religiosity and Its Critics | 179 |
| Literacy and the Commoners | 179 | |
| Intellectuals as Critics of Popular Religion and Local Cults | 185 | |
| Intellectuals as Reformers of Popular Religion | 192 | |
| Intellectuals as Participants in Popular Religion | 194 | |
| 9 | Conclusion | 205 |
| The Nature of Extra-Human Powers | 206 | |
| Belief in a Correlative Cosmological Order | 209 | |
| Death and the Netherworld | 210 | |
| Apotheosis | 212 | |
| Piety and Happiness | 213 | |
| Epilogue | 216 | |
| Notes | 219 | |
| Bibliography | 275 | |
| Index | 321 |
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Gordon De Snoo
reviewed In Search of Personal Welfare: A View of Ancient Chinese Religion on August 16, 2012
In Search of Personal Welfare: A View of Ancient Chinese Religion
This book is a collection of essays. Some are better written and more helpful than others. Overall, there is definitely some good information in this book.
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