Bony Schachter
Biographic Data
| ID | 708261 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bony Schachter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bony |
| FAMILY NAME | Schachter |
| SIGNATURE | SCHACHTER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1809-0959 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
New Trends in Daoist Studies
From Regal Way to Political Quietism
This article examines the shifting status of Daoism in late imperial China through evolving biographical portrayals of the Ming prince Zhu Quan. It identifies a conflict between "textualist" scholars, who redefined Daoism as a set of ancient philosophical texts, and a "ritualist" community that upheld its ritual and political potency. The analysis unfolds in three parts: analyzing Zhu Quan's own presentation of himself as a divine bureaucrat wiel…
What Is Hell? How Daoism Challenges the Strong View
This article argues that Daoism embodies a performative approach to hell. To make this argument, the first section summarizes the "strong view of hell". The second section explores how the Daoist text Scripture of the Three Offices (Sanguan jing 三官經) describes hell. The third section examines how the Daoist priest Nie Shihao 聶士豪 (fl. 1691) interprets this description of hell. His commentary shows that Chinese rituals constitute a venue whereby so…
Portrait of a Divine King
From the late Ming onwards, scholars have paid great attention to Zhu Quan’s (1378–1448) relationship with Daoism. They tend to explain the phenomenon with reference to the taohui hypothesis, which was first developed in Zhu Mouwei’s (1550–1624) Fanxianji. According to this hypothesis, Zhu Quan’s relationship with Daoism was a matter of survival and entailed a form of self-serving dissimulation. Apart from refuting this hypothesis, the present ar…
What is Sacrifice? Towards a Polythetic Definition with an Emphasis on African and Chinese Religions
This paper asks a simple and yet extremely relevant question for scholars of religion: what is sacrifice? Rejecting monothetic definitions of sacrifice, I argue that the phenomenon must be understood as a polythetic class. In its two first sections, the paper discusses the evidence from African religions and Chinese religions, respectively. The last section is devoted to a comparative exercise through which I highlight the polythetic nature of sa…
Parting Ways
In the “Epistle” (“Shang tianfu shenyin jiashu” 上天府神隱家書), the Prince of Ning Zhu Quan 寧王朱權 (1378–1448) presents the book Shenyin 神隱 (Divine Hermitage) to Yongle (Zhu Di 朱棣, 1360–1424). The “Epistle” is the first document to announce Zhu Quan’s transition to the status of divine author True Lord from the Southern Pole. This article argues that the letter must be interpreted as a political act. Its three sections examine the letter in terms of its …
Daoism and Ming rulership
This article examines Jiajing's (Zhu Houcong 朱厚熜, 1507–67) preface to the Scripture of the Three Offices ( Sanguan jing 三官經, hereafter, Scripture ). The first section discusses the provenance of Jiajing's preface, and shows that the preface is preserved in the Explanation ( Sanguan jing zhujie 三官經註解), an unstudied edition of the Scripture produced in 1876. The second section offers a comparison between the Explanation and Ming editions of the Scr…
Entrevista com Hu Jiechen (Universidade de Hunan/Academia Yuelu)
Entrevista com Hu Jiechen (Universidade de Hunan/Academia Yuelu)
Gaoshang Yuhuang Benxing Jijing (Combined Scriptures of the Original Acts of the Exalted and Superior Jade Sovereign)
《高上玉皇本行集經》第一品譯註本文討論《高上玉皇本行集經》的結構和內容,並且提供該道經第一品的譯 註。第一部分主要介紹「玉皇」的簡史,且指出六朝時期文獻中「玉皇」一 詞可代表若干不同的神靈,而自宋朝以來,作為諸神之主的「玉皇」,在不同 的文獻的語境中,逐漸展現出一種多元化的特徵。隨之在第二部分討論《高 上玉皇本行集經》的接收史,並強調所謂的「扶乩」儀式在闡釋該道經的過 程中所扮演的角色。通過譯本所提供的註釋,本論文試圖將《高上玉皇本行 集經》的文獻脈絡加以梳理,且在附錄中明確指出該道經的不同文獻層面的 來源和年代
Crianças De Sangue
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/tecap.2012.10238O artigo discute um importante aspecto da vida religiosa de Taiwan, Hong Kong e Cingapura, o ritual dos jitong, cuja característica mais marcante é a ocorrência da possessão, seguida por dramático ato de autoimolação, aqui explicado como uma espécie de obra de arte, isto é, como algo que envolve projeto e cálculo, e não como manifestação do divino no âmbito humano
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Crianças De Sangue
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/tecap.2012.10238O artigo discute um importante aspecto da vida religiosa de Taiwan, Hong Kong e Cingapura, o ritual dos jitong, cuja característica mais marcante é a ocorrência da possessão, seguida por dramático ato de autoimolação, aqui explicado como uma espécie de obra de arte, isto é, como algo que envolve projeto e cálculo, e não como manifestação do divino no âmbito humano
Gaoshang Yuhuang Benxing Jijing (Combined Scriptures of the Original Acts of the Exalted and Superior Jade Sovereign)
《高上玉皇本行集經》第一品譯註本文討論《高上玉皇本行集經》的結構和內容,並且提供該道經第一品的譯 註。第一部分主要介紹「玉皇」的簡史,且指出六朝時期文獻中「玉皇」一 詞可代表若干不同的神靈,而自宋朝以來,作為諸神之主的「玉皇」,在不同 的文獻的語境中,逐漸展現出一種多元化的特徵。隨之在第二部分討論《高 上玉皇本行集經》的接收史,並強調所謂的「扶乩」儀式在闡釋該道經的過 程中所扮演的角色。通過譯本所提供的註釋,本論文試圖將《高上玉皇本行 集經》的文獻脈絡加以梳理,且在附錄中明確指出該道經的不同文獻層面的 來源和年代
Entrevista com Hu Jiechen (Universidade de Hunan/Academia Yuelu)
Entrevista com Hu Jiechen (Universidade de Hunan/Academia Yuelu)
What is Sacrifice? Towards a Polythetic Definition with an Emphasis on African and Chinese Religions
This paper asks a simple and yet extremely relevant question for scholars of religion: what is sacrifice? Rejecting monothetic definitions of sacrifice, I argue that the phenomenon must be understood as a polythetic class. In its two first sections, the paper discusses the evidence from African religions and Chinese religions, respectively. The last section is devoted to a comparative exercise through which I highlight the polythetic nature of sa…
Parting Ways
In the “Epistle” (“Shang tianfu shenyin jiashu” 上天府神隱家書), the Prince of Ning Zhu Quan 寧王朱權 (1378–1448) presents the book Shenyin 神隱 (Divine Hermitage) to Yongle (Zhu Di 朱棣, 1360–1424). The “Epistle” is the first document to announce Zhu Quan’s transition to the status of divine author True Lord from the Southern Pole. This article argues that the letter must be interpreted as a political act. Its three sections examine the letter in terms of its …
Daoism and Ming rulership
This article examines Jiajing's (Zhu Houcong 朱厚熜, 1507–67) preface to the Scripture of the Three Offices ( Sanguan jing 三官經, hereafter, Scripture ). The first section discusses the provenance of Jiajing's preface, and shows that the preface is preserved in the Explanation ( Sanguan jing zhujie 三官經註解), an unstudied edition of the Scripture produced in 1876. The second section offers a comparison between the Explanation and Ming editions of the Scr…
Portrait of a Divine King
From the late Ming onwards, scholars have paid great attention to Zhu Quan’s (1378–1448) relationship with Daoism. They tend to explain the phenomenon with reference to the taohui hypothesis, which was first developed in Zhu Mouwei’s (1550–1624) Fanxianji. According to this hypothesis, Zhu Quan’s relationship with Daoism was a matter of survival and entailed a form of self-serving dissimulation. Apart from refuting this hypothesis, the present ar…
From Regal Way to Political Quietism
This article examines the shifting status of Daoism in late imperial China through evolving biographical portrayals of the Ming prince Zhu Quan. It identifies a conflict between "textualist" scholars, who redefined Daoism as a set of ancient philosophical texts, and a "ritualist" community that upheld its ritual and political potency. The analysis unfolds in three parts: analyzing Zhu Quan's own presentation of himself as a divine bureaucrat wiel…
What Is Hell? How Daoism Challenges the Strong View
This article argues that Daoism embodies a performative approach to hell. To make this argument, the first section summarizes the "strong view of hell". The second section explores how the Daoist text Scripture of the Three Offices (Sanguan jing 三官經) describes hell. The third section examines how the Daoist priest Nie Shihao 聶士豪 (fl. 1691) interprets this description of hell. His commentary shows that Chinese rituals constitute a venue whereby so…
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