The cult of the fox: power, gender, and popular religion in late imperial and modern China
"For more than five centuries the shamanistic fox cult has attracted large portions of the Chinese population and appealed to a wide range of social classes. Deemed illicit by imperial rulers and clerics and officially banned by republican and communist leaders, the fox cult has managed to surv...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "For more than five centuries the shamanistic fox cult has attracted large portions of the Chinese population and appealed to a wide range of social classes. Deemed illicit by imperial rulers and clerics and officially banned by republican and communist leaders, the fox cult has managed to survive and flourish in individual homes and community shrines throughout northern China. In this new work, the first to examine the fox cult as a vibrant popular religion, Xiaofei Kang explores the manifold meanings of the fox spirit in Chinese society. Kang describes various cult practices, activities of worship, and the exorcising of fox spirits to reveal how the Chinese people constructed their cultural and social values outside the gaze of official power and morality." "Kang's book uncovers and reinterprets a wealth of anecdotal historical texts and works of popular literature and draws on her own ethnographic research. She considers how the fox cult operated on the margins of Chinese society as well as the fox's place in the popular imagination. As a symbol, fox spirits have long been marginal and variable creatures with the ability to freely change their gender and age, potentially both evil and benign. The Chinese people, as Kang demonstrates, have drawn on and manipulated the various meanings of the fox spirit to cope with and give order to the changes in their personal lives and in society." "Kang also pays close attention to the ways in which gender was used to construct religious power in Chinese society. Gendered interpretation of the fox were used to define the official and unofficial, private and public, and moral and immoral in religious practices. Kang's analysis of the history of the fox cult addresses central questions in the study of Chinese religion and society, including the dynamic between cultural unity and variation and the relationships of various social groups to popular religion."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-259) and index |
| Beschreibung: | XIII, 269 S. Ill., Kt. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0231133383 0231508220 |
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| spelling | Kang, Xiaofei Verfasser (DE-588)173849520 aut The cult of the fox power, gender, and popular religion in late imperial and modern China Xiaofei Kang New York [u.a.] Columbia Univ. Press 2006 XIII, 269 S. Ill., Kt. 24 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-259) and index "For more than five centuries the shamanistic fox cult has attracted large portions of the Chinese population and appealed to a wide range of social classes. Deemed illicit by imperial rulers and clerics and officially banned by republican and communist leaders, the fox cult has managed to survive and flourish in individual homes and community shrines throughout northern China. In this new work, the first to examine the fox cult as a vibrant popular religion, Xiaofei Kang explores the manifold meanings of the fox spirit in Chinese society. Kang describes various cult practices, activities of worship, and the exorcising of fox spirits to reveal how the Chinese people constructed their cultural and social values outside the gaze of official power and morality." "Kang's book uncovers and reinterprets a wealth of anecdotal historical texts and works of popular literature and draws on her own ethnographic research. She considers how the fox cult operated on the margins of Chinese society as well as the fox's place in the popular imagination. As a symbol, fox spirits have long been marginal and variable creatures with the ability to freely change their gender and age, potentially both evil and benign. The Chinese people, as Kang demonstrates, have drawn on and manipulated the various meanings of the fox spirit to cope with and give order to the changes in their personal lives and in society." "Kang also pays close attention to the ways in which gender was used to construct religious power in Chinese society. Gendered interpretation of the fox were used to define the official and unofficial, private and public, and moral and immoral in religious practices. Kang's analysis of the history of the fox cult addresses central questions in the study of Chinese religion and society, including the dynamic between cultural unity and variation and the relationships of various social groups to popular religion."--BOOK JACKET. Cultus gtt Vossen gtt Religion Foxes China Religious aspects Cults China Fuchs (DE-588)4128484-7 gnd rswk-swf Volksglaube (DE-588)4063834-0 gnd rswk-swf Kult (DE-588)4033535-5 gnd rswk-swf China (DE-588)4009937-4 gnd rswk-swf China (DE-588)4009937-4 g Fuchs (DE-588)4128484-7 s Kult (DE-588)4033535-5 s Volksglaube (DE-588)4063834-0 s DE-604 |
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