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Taoism, death, and bureaucracy in early medieval China.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Taoism, death, and bureaucracy in early medieval China./
Author:	Nickerson, Peter Samuel.
Description:	697 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-08, Section: A, page: 3634.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International57-08A.
Subject:	Asian history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9703229
ISBN:	9780591096712

Taoism, death, and bureaucracy in early medieval China.
Nickerson, Peter Samuel.

Taoism, death, and bureaucracy in early medieval China. - 697 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-08, Section: A, page: 3634.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1996.

The dissertation analyzes the bureaucratization of religious organization, ritual, and cosmology in early Taoism. It emphasizes the way that process shaped Taoism's relations with popular religious traditions. Early Taoists used bureaucratic forms in their attempts to subordinate their popular religious competitors. In so doing, however, they not only distanced themselves from, but also tied themselves to, their competition. The study ranges chronologically between the first and tenth centuries A.D., but concentrates on southeastern China during the late fourth through early sixth centuries. The focus is on the three principal early Taoist lineages: Celestial Master (T'ien shih), Shang-ch'ing, and (to a lesser degree) Ling-pao.

ISBN: 9780591096712Subjects--Topical Terms:

1099323
Asian history.

Taoism, death, and bureaucracy in early medieval China.
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520 $a The dissertation analyzes the bureaucratization of religious organization, ritual, and cosmology in early Taoism. It emphasizes the way that process shaped Taoism's relations with popular religious traditions. Early Taoists used bureaucratic forms in their attempts to subordinate their popular religious competitors. In so doing, however, they not only distanced themselves from, but also tied themselves to, their competition. The study ranges chronologically between the first and tenth centuries A.D., but concentrates on southeastern China during the late fourth through early sixth centuries. The focus is on the three principal early Taoist lineages: Celestial Master (T'ien shih), Shang-ch'ing, and (to a lesser degree) Ling-pao.
520 $a Chapter 1 examines Lu Hsiu-ching's (406-477) account of early Taoist history and Taoist church organization. Chapters 2-4 discuss mortuary and related rituals: the use in funerals of written documents in the form of official governmental communications, and the ritual of "petitioning celestial officials" that was used to combat "sepulchral plaints"--lawsuits brought in the magistracies of the underworld that could afflict the living kin of the accused with illness. Despite the Taoists' bureaucratization of ritual and the afterlife, their innovations built on, rather than supplanted, archaic shamano-exorcistic traditions. Bureaucratization did not necessitate a thorough break with the past.
520 $a Chapters 5-7 focus on interactions between medieval Taoists and popular ritualists. Early Taoists were prohibited from practicing the mantic arts or patronizing their practitioners, such as spirit mediums and geomancers. However, virtually from the beginning there began a process of assimilation of those same prohibited popular traditions and even de facto collaboration between Taoist priests and mantic practitioners. Medieval Taoists in effect recognized that there was a necessary, if subordinate, place in ritual for the immediate access to the supernatural the mantic arts provided. Analogously, Taoists first termed the gods of popular religion demons (kuei), then allowed them to redeem themselves through diligent service to the Tao (chap. 8). Early Taoism was "pre-adapted" for the relationship of complementarity and cooperation with popular religion that has been observed in more recent times.
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