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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Auteur principal: Marsili, Filippo (Auteur)
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Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Albany State University of New York Press 2018
Dans:Année: 2018
Collection/Revue:SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture Ser
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Édition parallèle: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

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520 |a 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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