Late Imperial Chinese Anticlericalism and the Division of Ritual Labor

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3974912
AutoresVincent Goossaert (École Pratique des Hautes Études, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume61
Fascículo1
Páginas87-104
Data de publicação2021-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHistory of Religions (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0018-2710 • E-ISSN: 1545-6935
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/714966
OpenAlexW3203589519
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas14

This article proposes to place the anticlerical discourses in late imperial China (1368–1912), notably directed at professional Buddhists and Daoists, in a social context where the rights and duties of religious specialists were closely regulated by local social institutions (rather than by the state) and embedded in thick contractual processes. Drawing on the rich data available for the Jiangnan region, it argues that the fact that one could not freely choose which ritual specialist to employ (or not to employ) for various life-cycle events (weddings, funerals, ancestor worship) directly informed the type of asymmetrical relationships these people had with clerics and hence the discourse they held about them

Ancient history · Arithmetic · Division (mathematics) · Division of labour · Political science · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies