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4 produkter
Ritual and its Consequences
An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity
Av Adam B Seligman, Robert P Weller m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
552 kr
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Ritual is usually understood as pointing to some essence beyond the ritual act itself. This ambitious interdisciplinary study offers a convincing challenge to this understanding. The authors begin by seeking to explain how the conventional idea arose in the first place. They locate its origin in a …
To Become a God
Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China
Häftad, 2004
245 kr
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Evidence from Shang oracle bones to memorials submitted to Western Han emperors attests to a long-lasting debate in early China over the proper relationship between humans and gods. One pole of the debate saw the human and divine realms as separate and agonistic and encouraged divination to …
Ambivalence of Creation
Debates Concerning Innovation and Artifice in Early China
Inbunden, 2002
956 kr
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As early as the Warring States period in China (fourth through third centuries B.C.), debates arose concerning how and under what circumstances new institutions could be formed and legitimated. But the debates quickly encompassed more than just legitimation. Larger issues came to the fore: Can a …
Ambivalence of Creation
Debates Concerning Innovation and Artifice in Early China
E-bok, 2002
1084 kr
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As early as the Warring States period in China (fourth through third centuries B.C.), debates arose concerning how and under what circumstances new institutions could be formed and legitimated. But the debates quickly encompassed more than just legitimation. Larger issues came to the fore: Can a …
