Female Gender in Chinese Religious Symbols
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Published: 1983
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Kuan Yin Bodhisattva
Author: Danya J. Furda
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 402
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKGoddess on the Frontier
Author: Megan Bryson
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2016-11-02
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1503600459
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDali is a small region on a high plateau in Southeast Asia. Its main deity, Baijie, has assumed several gendered forms throughout the area's history: Buddhist goddess, the mother of Dali's founder, a widowed martyr, and a village divinity. What accounts for so many different incarnations of a local deity? Goddess on the Frontier argues that Dali's encounters with forces beyond region and nation have influenced the goddess's transformations. Dali sits at the cultural crossroads of Southeast Asia, India, and Tibet; it has been claimed by different countries but is currently part of Yunnan Province in Southwest China. Megan Bryson incorporates historical-textual studies, art history, and ethnography in her book to argue that Baijie provided a regional identity that enabled Dali to position itself geopolitically and historically. In doing so, Bryson provides a case study of how people craft local identities out of disparate cultural elements and how these local identities transform over time in relation to larger historical changes—including the increasing presence of the Chinese state.
Gendering Chinese Religion
Author: Jinhua Jia
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2014-07-30
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1438453094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGendering Chinese Religion marks the emergence of a subfield on women, gender, and religion in China studies. Ranging from the medieval period to the present day, this volume departs from the conventional and often male-centered categorization of Chinese religions into Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, and popular religion. It makes two compelling arguments. First, Chinese women have deployed specific religious ideas and rituals to empower themselves in various social contexts. Second, gendered perceptions and representations of Chinese religions have been indispensable to the historical and contemporary construction of social and political power. The contributors use innovative ways of discovering and applying a rich variety of sources, many previously ignored by scholars. While each of the chapters in this interdisciplinary work represents a distinct perspective, together they form a coherent dialogue about the historical importance, intellectual possibilities, and methodological protocols of this new subfield.
Chinese Religious Life
Author: David A. Palmer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-09-13
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0199731381
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffering an introduction to religion in contemporary China, the essays in this volume consider many diverse themes including religion in urban, rural and ethnic minority settings and the historical, sociological, economic and political aspects of religion on the country as a whole.
Chinese Religious Life
Author: David A. Palmer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-09-13
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0199911355
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by a team of internationally renowned scholars, this volume provides an in-depth introduction to religion in contemporary China. Instead of adopting the traditional focus on pre-modern religious history and doctrinal traditions, Chinese Religious Life examines the social dimensions of religious life, with essays devoted to religion in urban, rural, and ethnic minority settings; to the religious dimensions of body, gender, environment, and civil society; and to the historical, sociological, economic, and political aspects of religion in contemporary Chinese society.
Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion: L-Z
Author: David Adams Leeming
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2009-10-26
Total Pages: 1023
ISBN-13: 038771801X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntegrating psychology and religion, this unique encyclopedia offers a rich contribution to the development of human self-understanding. It provides an intellectually rigorous collection of psychological interpretations of the stories, rituals, motifs, symbols, doctrines, dogmas, and experiences of the world’s religious traditions. Easy-to-read, the encyclopedia draws from forty different religions, including modern world religions and older religious movements. It is of particular interest to researchers and professionals in psychology and religion.
Gender and Religion
Author: Caroline Walker Bynum
Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780807010099
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Author: Leona May Anderson
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 300
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text looks at women and religion in a wide range of international contexts: Hinduism, Buddhism, Chinese religions, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Aboriginal religions, and new religions that focus on the Goddess. Each chapter is organized around common themes and two case studies of experiences of religious women in North America are included.
The Transformations of Baijie Shengfei
Author: Megan Culbertson Bryson
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe goddess Baijie is worshipped only in the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture of Southwest China's Yunnan province, home to the Bai "nationality" (minzu). Most people today see Baijie as the widow martyr of a local ruler from the eighth century, but she first appears as a Buddhist goddess in scriptures of the Dali Kingdom (937-1253). In the Ming (1368-1644) a legend appears in which Baijie is the mother of Duan Siping, founder of the Dali Kingdom. Baijie's widow martyr identity finally emerges in the Ming and Qing (1644-1911). Today, Baijie is worshipped in her widow martyr form as a tutelary village deity throughout Dali Prefecture. This dissertation examines Baijie's transformations in relation to the themes of ethnicity and gender in the religious history of Dali. I argue that the changes in Baijie's identity reflect changes in the representation of ethnicity in Dali religion from the twelfth century to the present. Baijie's gendered symbolism, particularly in her later widow martyr form, additionally illuminates the intersections of ethnicity and gender in Dali religion. The Dali region, and Yunnan as a whole, has long fallen just inside or outside the sphere of Chinese state control. Despite Dali's proximity to India, Tibet, and Southeast Asia, historical records strongly suggest that Dali elites looked to China for their systems of writing, government, and to some extent, religion. Baijie's transformations show how religious symbols reflected and shaped Dali elites' self-representation in relation to Chinese culture and the Chinese state. The first two chapters provide background by examining issues of religion and ethnicity in the independent Nanzhao (649-903) and Dali kingdoms. Chapters three through five cover Baijie's first three identities of Buddhist goddess, king's mother, and widow martyr from the Dali kingdom through the Qing dynasty. Chapter six looks at contemporary Baijie worship and is based primarily on field research conducted in Dali in 2007-08.
