Flourishing fasts : vegetarian sects in late imperial and modern Chinese societies /
Nikolas Broy
Bok · Engelsk · 2025
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| Opplysninger | Part One. History. Analytical Approaches to Chinese Sectarianism and Local Society: Nonconformist Dissenters, Popular Buddhists, Lay Practitioners -- From Late Imperial China to Modern Taiwan: A Translocal Entangled History of the Vegetarian Sects -- Japanization and Beyond: Monastic Buddhists and the Perils of Competition in Twentieth-Century Taiwan -- Part Two. Repertoires. Mother Mythologies: Eschatology, the Mother-Child Dyad, and the Path Back Home -- The Sectarian Repertoire: Zhaijiao Symbols, Beliefs, and Practices and Chinese Religious Life -- Lamps, Altars, and Vegetarian Halls: The Architecture of Religious Practice -- Iconophobia and Moral Feasts: Salvationism, Ritualism, and Gendered Self-Cultivation -- Part Three. Embeddedness. Of the People, for the People: Zhaijiao and Taiwanese Society -- Passing the Light: The Longhuapai Initiation Festival -- Epilogue. Sectarian Groups as Arrangements.. - "Flourishing Fasts is the first book in any language to explore the history of the Zhaijiao, commonly translated as "vegetarian sects," that originated in southeastern China during the Ming and Qing dynasties and are still active in contemporary Taiwan. Combining historical analysis and ethnographic fieldwork, Nikolas Broy reveals the entangled nature of the Zhaijiao-and other Chinese sectarian groups-within their socioreligious environment. Conventionally considered nonconformist dissenters or lay Buddhists, the Zhaijiao in fact embody one intersection of the "Three Teachings" of Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism and manifest aspects of local religious life and universal salvationist teachings. Not limited to everyday religious rites such as worshiping local gods, conducting initiation festivals, and performing ritual services for nonmembers, the Zhaijiao also serve as institutions around which social and political life are centered-for example through mobilizing local resources for public enterprises or articulating property rights vis-à-vis the state."-- Provided by publisher.
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| ISBN | 9780674302532
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