China – A Religious State (Understanding China - New Viewpoints on History and Culture) - Softcover

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Lagerwey, John

9789888028047: China – A Religious State (Understanding China - New Viewpoints on History and Culture)

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ISBN 10: 9888028049 ISBN 13: 9789888028047

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press, 2010

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The Chinese state has always been a religious one, in which pantheons and rituals were central political concerns. But while the state regularly refined its definition of orthodoxy, Chinese local society worshiped gods of its own choosing and organized itself autonomously in geomantic space, according to a local festival calendar.

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About the Author

John Lagerwey is a professor of Daoist history at the 381cole Pratique des Hautes 381tudes and of Chinese studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is author of Taoist Ritual in Chinese Society and History and editor of the thirty-volume "Traditional Hakka Society Series" as well as the recently published four-volume set Early Chinese Religion.