Surveilled, harmonized, purified: the body in Chinese religious culture

The human body has long occupied a central role in religious praxis across the globe. Recent decades have witnessed a change in academic studies aimed at theorizing the body and its relationship with society and the cosmos. This article adds to this discourse by demonstrating the pervasiveness of th...

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Subtitles:"Special Issue: Religious body imagined, part II"
Main Author: Tavor, Ori ca. 21. Jh. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox Publishing 2021
In: Body and religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 5, Issue: 1, Pages: 24-44
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B China / Religion / Body / Representation / World order / History 200 BC-600
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
BL Buddhism
BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism
KBM Asia
NBE Anthropology
TB Antiquity
Further subjects:B Buddhism
B Microcosmic Body
B Daoism
B Celestial Bureaucracy
B Ritual
B Confucianism
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