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The Taoists of Peking, 1800-1949: A Social History of Urban Clerics
Vincent Goossaert
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Hardback. By looking at the activities of Taoist clerics in Peking, this book explores the workings of religion as a profession in one Chinese city during a period of dramatic modernisation. It focuses on ordinary religious professionals, most of whom remained obscure temple employees. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 425 pages, 5 line illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; HRAX; HRKN5; HRLM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 161 x 35. Weight in Grams: 710.
By looking at the activities of Taoist clerics in Peking, this book explores the workings of religion as a profession in one Chinese city during a period of dramatic modernization. The author focuses on ordinary religious professionals, most of whom remained obscure temple employees. Although almost forgotten, they were all major actors in urban religious and cultural life.
The clerics at the heart of this study spent their time training disciples, practicing and teaching self-cultivation, performing rituals, and managing temples. Vincent Goossaert shows that these Taoists were neither the socially despised illiterates dismissed in so many studies, nor otherworldly ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Condition
New
Series
Harvard East Asian Monographs
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674025059
SKU
V9780674025059
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About Vincent Goossaert
Vincent Goossaert is Research Professor in the Religious Studies Department at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris.
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