Heaven Is Empty: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Religion and Empire in Ancient China
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Author's Note -- Introduction: An Empire without a "Religion" -- Monotheisms and Globalizations -- The Argument: Metaphysics in Historical Narratives -- Elusive Rulers, Lacunose Accounts, Inadequate Models -- Overlapping Historical and Cultural...
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| Language: | English |
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Albany
State University of New York Press
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Series/Journal: | SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture Ser
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| Parallel Edition: | Print version: Marsili, Filippo: Heaven Is Empty : A Cross-Cultural Approach to Religion and Empire in Ancient China. - Albany : State University of New York Press,c2018. - 9781438472010 |
| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Author's Note -- Introduction: An Empire without a "Religion" -- Monotheisms and Globalizations -- The Argument: Metaphysics in Historical Narratives -- Elusive Rulers, Lacunose Accounts, Inadequate Models -- Overlapping Historical and Cultural Contexts -- Grappling with the Issue of "Religion" in Chinese History and Society -- Time and Space: The Structure of Heaven Is Empty -- 1 Readings of the "Sacred" -- The Hegemony of Monotheism, Founding Fathers, and the Necessity of a Chinese Religion -- Chinese Religions and Comparative Approaches -- An Ethnocentric Conundrum: Civilization without Religion -- The Axial Age: History Becomes Philosophy, and Philosophy Reverts to Religion -- Philology as Mythology -- Rituals for the Living and for the Dead -- Conclusions: Comparativism, Ambiguity, and Intercultural Dialogue -- 2 Writing the Empire Ex Pluribus Plurima -- Empires, Historiography, and Cultural Unification -- The Points of Views of the First History of China -- Ritual and Memory in Early Imperial China -- The Solitude of the Sages: The Elusiveness of Li and the Unification of China -- The Recovery and Re-creation of Li after Emperor Wu -- Everything Comes Together: Ban Gu and "The Treatise on the Five Phases" -- The Classicists and "the People" -- Of Omens, Emperors, and Men -- Historiography as an Educational Journey -- Conclusions: "Every Structure Is a Hidden God" -- 3 Narrating the Empire Metaphysics without God, "Religions" without Identity -- Heaven, Fortune, and Universalism in Early Chinese and Greco-Roman Historiography -- The Records, Universalism, and the Extension of Civilization -- Universalism in Polybius -- A Brief Cultural History of Heaven -- Gaozu, Empress Lü, Heaven and Yin and Yang's Anomalies -- Liu Bang, a Snake, and Heaven's Involvement in the Fall of the Qin Polybius and Fortune between the Hellenic World and Rome -- Conclusion: The Rhetoric of Empires -- 4 Time, Myth, and Memory Of Water, Metal, and Cinnabar -- Divine Kings, Their Audiences, and Their Descendants -- Gods, Saints, Sages, Ancestors, and Immortals -- The "Book on the Feng and Shan Sacrifices" or the "History of Make-believe" -- The Yellow Emperor as a Mortal: A Model of Unified Rulership -- Telling Myths under Emperor Wu: Tripods, Alchemy, and Immortality as Political Metaphors -- Conclusion: The Feng and Shan as a Grand Misunderstanding -- 5 Place and Ritual From Templum to Text -- Introduction: The Monumentality of Absence -- Family, Land, and Conflict in the Early Han Empire -- Metaphors of Warfare and Hunting: Poetry as Propaganda -- Ritual, Boundaries, and Empire: The Roman and the Han Cases -- The Problematic Legacy of Emperor Wu -- Conclusions: Templum and Text: Functional Incongruity of Rituals in the Chinese Early Imperial China -- Conclusions: The Importance of Getting Lost -- Emperor Wu, Local Cults, and Spirit Mediums -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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| ISBN: | 143847203X |