In the Shadow of the Spirit Image: The Production, Consecration, and Enshrinement of a Daoist Statue in Northern Taiwan
Statues of the gods, or spirit images (shenxiang 神像), remain among the most ubiquitous material objects in the religious culture of modern-day Taiwan. Notwithstanding, research to date has yet to examine adequately the people and processes that produce, consecrate, and enshrine these statues, work t...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2021
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Journal of Chinese religions
Year: 2021, Volume: 49, Issue: 2, Pages: 265-324 |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Material Religion B Daoism B Ritual B 開光 B kaiguang B 集合體 B 廣成子 B 道教 B Assemblage (Art) B Guangcheng Zi B 物質宗教 B 神像 B deity statues |
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| Summary: | Statues of the gods, or spirit images (shenxiang 神像), remain among the most ubiquitous material objects in the religious culture of modern-day Taiwan. Notwithstanding, research to date has yet to examine adequately the people and processes that produce, consecrate, and enshrine these statues, work that effects a transformation of these cult statues into sacred presences. How should we understand the relationship between these artistic and ritual processes and the resulting spirit image that is born out of them? The article argues that the spirit image at the heart of this study, a statue of the Daoist god Guangcheng Zi 廣成子, emerges in the context of its religious lifeworld not as a discrete entity, but rather as an "assemblage," a coming together of the people who contribute to it, the materials those people use, and the specific spirits and divine powers those people invoke. |
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| ISSN: | 2050-8999 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Chinese religions
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