Opium for the Gods: Cheang Hong Lim (1841-1893), Headman and Ritual Libationer of the Hokkien Community, Leader of the Singapore Great Opium Syndicate (1870-1882)

In China, as in India, ritual roles are distributed across the entire social field, rather than being confined to a religious field that is competed over in a quest for the monopolization of its powers. This essay explores the ritual roles of a leader of the Chinese diaspora in Singapore in the seco...

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1. VerfasserIn: Dean, Kenneth 1956- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Ed. de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales [2021]
In: Archives de sciences sociales des religions
Jahr: 2021, Band: 193, Seiten: 107-129
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Cheang, Hong Lim 1825-1893 / China / Minnanhua (Sprache) / Diaspora (Sozialwissenschaften) / Tempelbau / Ritus
RelBib Classification:AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik
AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion
BM Chinesischer Universismus; Konfuzianismus; Taoismus
KBM Asien
ZC Politik
weitere Schlagwörter:B templos chinos
B Taoïsme
B Singapore
B opio
B Daoism
B Singapur
B temples chinois
B taoísmo
B Singapour
B Chinese temples
B Hokkien
B Opium
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Zusammenfassung:In China, as in India, ritual roles are distributed across the entire social field, rather than being confined to a religious field that is competed over in a quest for the monopolization of its powers. This essay explores the ritual roles of a leader of the Chinese diaspora in Singapore in the second half of the 19th century, drawing on stone inscriptions he wrote in several temples he built or restored, and his burial record, composed by the Chinese Consul General to Singapore, Huang Zunxian (1848-1905). These sources reveal how intricately entangled were the secular, commercial, political and religious realms at the end of the golden age of the Chinese temple network in Southeast Asia.
ISSN:1777-5825
Enthält:Enthalten in: Archives de sciences sociales des religions
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.4000/assr.58561