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Set a demon to catch a demon: Ritual violence in cults of plague deities in southeastern China and Taiwan.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Set a demon to catch a demon: Ritual violence in cults of plague deities in southeastern China and Taiwan./
Author:	Oney, Robert W.
Description:	57 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Terry F. Kleeman.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International47-03.
Subject:	Religion, History of. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1461183
ISBN:	9780549972570

Set a demon to catch a demon: Ritual violence in cults of plague deities in southeastern China and Taiwan.
Oney, Robert W.

Set a demon to catch a demon: Ritual violence in cults of plague deities in southeastern China and Taiwan. - 57 p.

Adviser: Terry F. Kleeman.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Colorado at Boulder, 2009.

This thesis will explore the historical construction of plague deities and the ritual practices centered around them in the late imperial Chinese southern provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian and their modern manifestations in Taiwan. Plague deities are historically linked with earlier incarnations as disease spreading demons who were the object of ritually violent exorcisms beginning in the Han dynasty. These pentads of disease demons eventually became fully assimilated into the Daoist and Buddhist ritual systems by the time of the Song (960 C.E.--1279 C.E.) dynasty and were given official ranks within the celestial bureaucracy. Ritualized violence will be shown as an important element of the large festivals designed to propitiate plague deities and exorcise the plagues and demons they controlled. By using Victor Turner's "rites of affliction" with their focus on sickness and death, and Mary Douglas' theories of purity, it will be shown that using ritual violence to propitiate plague deities serves as a way of reestablishing the identity and boundary of the community to maintain social and cosmological harmony.

ISBN: 9780549972570Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017471
Religion, History of.

Set a demon to catch a demon: Ritual violence in cults of plague deities in southeastern China and Taiwan.
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