Robert Ford Campany
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1246015 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Robert Ford Campany |
| NOMBRES | Robert Ford |
| APELLIDO | Campany |
| FIRMA | CAMPANY R F |
| AFILIACIONES | Vanderbilt University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 75 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1989 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Nonhuman Self-cultivators in Early Medieval China
Historians of literature are well acquainted with early medieval stories of shapeshifting animals and other beings seducing unsuspecting men and women. This paper re-reads such narratives from the shapeshifters' point of view. This requires escaping the customary disciplinary boundaries and viewing these creatures' depictions against the backdrop of concurrently circulating "arts of the bedchamber" (fangzhong zhi shu 房中之術), one of several classes…
The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE - 800 CE
The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE–800 CE
Heaven Is Empty
Recent years have seen a welcome wave of revisionist studies of the culture, religion, and society of early imperial China, informed both by new scholarly methods and questions and by a wealth of sometimes astonishing materials (texts and other artefacts) that have been newly recovered archeologically. This book thus enters a somewhat crowded arena. Unfortunately, it delivers less than its provocative title promises. Heaven Is Empty seems to purs…
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To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth
In late classical and early medieval China, ascetics strove to become transcendents--deathless beings with supernormal powers. Practitioners developed dietetic, alchemical, meditative, gymnastic, sexual, and medicinal disciplines (some of which are still practiced today) to perfect themselves and thus transcend death. Narratives of their achievements circulated widely. Ge Hong (283-343 c.e.) collected and preserved many of their stories in his Tr…
Miracle Tales as Scripture Reception
Reception theory argues that meaning resides not in texts but in readers’ encounters with them. What would it mean to take this notion seriously in limning the authority and power Buddhist sutras were regarded as possessing in pre-Song China? In addition to the usual suspects (commentaries and doctrinal discourses), we have copious quantities of texts belonging to a pair of genres that have not been sufficiently examined as evidence for how sutra…
Religious” as a Category
Rightly noting that premodern non-Western cultures lacked a version of the modern Western category of “the religious,” some scholars have proposed simply abandoning it. Meanwhile, other scholars continue to wield it uncritically. In this article I propose a middle way, using premodern China as an example. Although China had no category exactly matching “the religious” in meaning and scope, it did, I argue, have an analogous category, one that fun…
Living off the Books
“Buddhism Enters China” in Early Medieval China
Narratives are important platforms for religious thought and vehicles of religious persuasion. They are not merely “didactic,” and they do not just flesh out, secondarily, religious doctrines. The early medieval centuries in China ( c. 200–600) saw the importation of Buddhism as well as the rise of organized Daoist religions. Members of both of these traditions sought to position their own understandings and priorities against the other. But ther…
Signs from the Unseen Realm
In early medieval China hundreds of Buddhist miracle texts were circulated, inaugurating a trend that would continue for centuries. Each tale recounted extraordinary events involving Chinese persons and places-events seen as verifying claims made in Buddhist scriptures, demonstrating the reality of karmic retribution, or confirming the efficacy of Buddhist devotional practices. Robert Ford Campany, one of North America's preeminent scholars of Ch…
Making Transcendents
Honorable Mention, Joseph Levenson Prize (pre-1900 category), Association for Asian StudiesBy the middle of the third century B.C.E. in China there were individuals who sought to become transcendents (xian)-deathless, godlike beings endowed with supernormal powers. This quest for transcendence became a major form of religious expression and helped lay the foundation on which the first Daoist religion was built. Both xian and those who aspired to …
Abstinence halls ( zhaitang 齋堂 ) in lay households in early medieval China
Most of what we know of religion in early medieval China concerns religious virtuosi, the spiritual and intellectual elite. But often, in texts focused on them, we glimpse the activities of some of the surrounding laypersons whose responses to virtuosi are in many cases the reason we have the texts in the first place. We possess normative writings of various kinds prescribing how laypeople should or should not practice religion. Evidence of how t…
Early Medieval China
Chinese History and Writing about ‘Religion(s)’
This chapter first summarizes the points the author made in an already-published article concerning the modern Western discourse on in the plural and the application of this discourse to phenomena in early medieval China. Then, turning to the singular term in its generic sense, that is, religion as a realm of concern as opposed to other realms of concern with which it sharply contrasts, he asks three sets of questions: What conceptual and termino…
Signs from the Unseen Realm
In early medieval China hundreds of Buddhist miracle texts were circulated, inaugurating a trend that would continue for centuries. Each tale recounted extraordinary events involving Chinese persons and places—events seen as verifying claims made in Buddhist scriptures, demonstrating the reality of karmic retribution, or confirming the efficacy of Buddhist devotional practices. This book presents the first complete, annotated translation, with in…
Religious Repertoires and Contestation
Making Transcendents
"By the middle of the third century B. CE. in China there were individuals who sought to become transcendents (xian) - deathless, godlike beings endowed with supernormal powers. The search for transcendence became a major form of religious expression and helped lay the foundation on which the first Daoist religion was built. Both xian and those who aspired to this exalted status in the centuries leading up to 350 C.E. have traditionally been port…
Visions religieuses pendant le haut Moyen Âge chinois
Introduction Les textes et les pratiques religieux sont d’habitude étudiés en tant que produits de « traditions » religieuses particulières, comme nous disons couramment. Les questions que nous posons à cet égard reviennent le plus souvent à demander où ils se situent dans le développement général de la tradition qui les a produits, et si nous les comparons aux textes et aux pratiques d’autres traditions, c’est généralement dans le but d’explique…
The Scripture on Great Peace
The Scripture on Great Peace: The Taiping jing and the Beginnings of Daoism." The Chinese Historical Review, 14(2), pp. 302–303
Monastic Life in Medieval Daoism
This is the first general Western-language monograph on Daoist monasticism. It opens with a chapter on monasticism as a cross-cultural phenomenon and type. Chapter 2, “Origins and History,” contrary to its title is not a history of Daoist monasticism—a history that began in the late fifth century C.E.—but rather a sketch of its prehistory. Chapter 3, “The Monastic Vision,” presents some basic goals and values of Daoist monasticism as outlined in …
Secrecy and Display in the Quest for Transcendence in China, ca. 220 BCE–350 CE
The magnitude of ming
Few ideas in Chinese discourse are as ubiquitous as ming, variously understood as command, allotted lifespan, fate, or life. In the earliest days of Chinese writing, ming was already present, invoked in divinations and etched into ancient bronzes; it has continued to inscribe itself down to the twenty-first century in literature and film. This volume assembles twelve essays by some of the most eminent scholars currently working in Chinese studies…
The Meanings of Cuisines of Transcendence in Late Classical and Early Medieval China
The Impact of Buddhism On Chinese Material Culture
Making Transcendents
"By the middle of the third century B. CE. in China there were individuals who sought to become transcendents (xian) - deathless, godlike beings endowed with supernormal powers. The search for transcendence became a major form of religious expression and helped lay the foundation on which the first Daoist religion was built. Both xian and those who aspired to this exalted status in the centuries leading up to 350 C.E. have traditionally been port…
On the Very Idea of Religions (In the Modern West and in Early Medieval China)
Religious Repertoires and Contestation
The Eminent Monk
"A Kuroda Institute book."
Religious” as a Category
Rightly noting that premodern non-Western cultures lacked a version of the modern Western category of “the religious,” some scholars have proposed simply abandoning it. Meanwhile, other scholars continue to wield it uncritically. In this article I propose a middle way, using premodern China as an example. Although China had no category exactly matching “the religious” in meaning and scope, it did, I argue, have an analogous category, one that fun…
To Live As Long As Heaven and Earth
List of Illustrations Foreword Preface Acknowledgments PART ONE: TRADITIONS OF DIVINE TRANSCENDENTS AND ITS CONTEXT Opening Ge Hong and the Writing of Traditions of Divine Transcendents The Nature of the Religion Reflected in Ge Hong's Works Text-Critical Matters PART TWO: A CRITICAL, ANNOTATED TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY Group A: Earliest-Attested Hagiographies Group A: Earliest-Attested Fragments Group B: Early-Attested Hagiographies Group B: Ea…
Secrecy and Display in the Quest for Transcendence in China, ca. 220 BCE–350 CE
The Real Presence for Joseph M. Kitagawa
The Scripture on Great Peace
The Scripture on Great Peace: The Taiping jing and the Beginnings of Daoism." The Chinese Historical Review, 14(2), pp. 302–303
Useless and Useful Survivals
In an earlier issue I published an article comparing the ways in which certain late nineteenth and early twentieth century Western authors, on the one hand, and certain early medieval Chinese authors on the other, employed the concept of survivals as a strategy for interpreting opaque cultural behaviors.1 In a reply, Robert A. Segal has correctly pointed out that I dealt with only one branch of Western theory of survivals.2 He errs, however, not …
"Survival" as an Interpretive Strategy
It seems strange to me that students of comparative religion have seldom asked whether there are people in the cultures we study who do something analogous to what we do. To pursue this sort of self-comparative inquiry requires going beyond studying their datai with our theory to ask after their theory; and it requires self-consciousness about what we ourselves have done and aimed to do in writing about religion. What follows is an example of how…
Buddhism under the T'ang. Stanley Weinstein
Return-From-Death Narratives in Early Medieval China
"Survival" as an Interpretive Strategy
It seems strange to me that students of comparative religion have seldom asked whether there are people in the cultures we study who do something analogous to what we do. To pursue this sort of self-comparative inquiry requires going beyond studying their datai with our theory to ask after their theory; and it requires self-consciousness about what we ourselves have done and aimed to do in writing about religion. What follows is an example of how…
Tradition and Creativity
Journey to the North
Useless and Useful Survivals
In an earlier issue I published an article comparing the ways in which certain late nineteenth and early twentieth century Western authors, on the one hand, and certain early medieval Chinese authors on the other, employed the concept of survivals as a strategy for interpreting opaque cultural behaviors.1 In a reply, Robert A. Segal has correctly pointed out that I dealt with only one branch of Western theory of survivals.2 He errs, however, not …
Vision, Tradition, Interpretation
The Ghost Festival in Medieval China The Ghost Festival in Medieval China . Stephen F. Teiser
Religion, Interpretation, and Diversity of Belief
The Real Presence for Joseph M. Kitagawa
Knowing Words
Speaking of Monks
Religious Experience and Lay Society in T'ang China
Religion and Wine
Journal Article Religion and Wine: A Cultural History of Wine Drinking in the United States. By Robert C. Fuller. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1996. xii, 140 pp. Cloth, $30.00, ISBN 0-87049910-6. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-87049-911-4.) Get access Robert Ford Campany Robert Ford Campany Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83,…
Demon Hordes and Burning Boats
Libro dei monti e dei mari (Shanhai jing)
(2000). Libro dei monti e dei mari (Shanhai jing): Cosmografia e mitologia nella China Antica. Journal of Chinese Religions: Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 177-187
Great Perfection
The Eminent Monk
"A Kuroda Institute book."
To Live As Long As Heaven and Earth
List of Illustrations Foreword Preface Acknowledgments PART ONE: TRADITIONS OF DIVINE TRANSCENDENTS AND ITS CONTEXT Opening Ge Hong and the Writing of Traditions of Divine Transcendents The Nature of the Religion Reflected in Ge Hong's Works Text-Critical Matters PART TWO: A CRITICAL, ANNOTATED TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY Group A: Earliest-Attested Hagiographies Group A: Earliest-Attested Fragments Group B: Early-Attested Hagiographies Group B: Ea…
On the Very Idea of Religions (In the Modern West and in Early Medieval China)
Daoism and Chinese Culture
A long-awaited textbook that introduces the major schools, teachings, and practices of Daoism, this work presents a chronological survey that is thematically divided into four parts: Ancient Thought, Religious Communities, Spiritual Practices, and Modernity. The work offers an integrated vision of the Daoist tradition in its historical and cultural context, establishing connections with relevant information on Confucianism, Chinese Buddhism, popu…
To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth
The magnitude of ming
Few ideas in Chinese discourse are as ubiquitous as ming, variously understood as command, allotted lifespan, fate, or life. In the earliest days of Chinese writing, ming was already present, invoked in divinations and etched into ancient bronzes; it has continued to inscribe itself down to the twenty-first century in literature and film. This volume assembles twelve essays by some of the most eminent scholars currently working in Chinese studies…
The Meanings of Cuisines of Transcendence in Late Classical and Early Medieval China
Secrecy and Display in the Quest for Transcendence in China, ca. 220 BCE–350 CE
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