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Auteur(s) : Yu, Jimmy Yung Fung (1968-....)
Titre(s) : Sanctity and self-inflicted violence in Chinese religions, 1500-1700 [Texte imprimé] / Jimmy Yu
Publication : Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012
Description matérielle : xiv, 272 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Comprend : A Culture in Flux: Historical Background ; Embodying the Text through Blood Writing
; Nourishing the Parent with One's Own Flesh ; Chaste Widows as Entertainment and
Revenants ; Exposing and Burning the Body for Rain ; Conclusion.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-256) and index
"In this illuminating study of a vital but long overlooked aspect of Chinese religious
life, Jimmy Yu reveals that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, self-inflicted
violence was an essential and sanctioned part of Chinese culture. He examines a wide
range of practices, including blood writing, filial body-slicing, chastity mutilations
and suicides, ritual exposure, and self-immolation, arguing that each practice was
public, scripted, and a signal of cultural expectations. Individuals engaged in acts
of self-inflicted violence to exercise power and to affect society, by articulating
moral values, reinstituting order, forging new social relations, and protecting against
the threat of moral ambiguity. Self-inflicted violence was intelligible both to the
person doing the act and to those who viewed and interpreted it, regardless of the
various religions of the period: Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and other religions.
This book is a groundbreaking contribution to scholarship on bodily practices in late
imperial China, challenging preconceived ideas about analytic categories of religion,
culture, and ritual in the study of Chinese religions."--Publisher's website
Sujet(s) : Automutilation -- Religion -- 16e siècle
Violence et religion -- 16e siècle
Automutilation -- Religion -- 17e siècle
Violence et religion -- 17e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780199844883 (hardcover) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0199844887 (hardcover) (alk. paper).
- ISBN 9780199844906 (pbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0199844909 (pbk.) (alk. paper). -
ISBN 9780199844890 (ebk.). - ISBN 0199844895 (ebk.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb426946546
Notice n° :
FRBNF42694654
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