The Daoist Difference
Alternatives to Imperial Power and Visions of a Unified Civilisation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2174646 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kenneth Dean (Forthnet (Greece), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 128-141 |
| Publication date | 2012-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canberra Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0314-9099 • E-ISSN: 1740-9314 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14442213.2012.656693 |
| OpenAlex | W2018271302 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 31 |
The issue of the unity of Chinese culture in the late imperial age has been the subject of much recent debate. This paper questions the imperial discursive presumption of unity as a continuum of cosmological power, flowing through the emperor to every part of the Chinese imperium. Alternative notions of cosmological power can be found in some Daoist movements, where multiple sources of cosmological power were considered to be within reach, with proper ritual training and access to esoteric texts and talismans. Popular Chinese religious practice appears to embrace even more alternatives, as there is no contradiction to multiple manifestations of a deity, and seemingly mutually exclusive liturgical frameworks coexist within the same ritual. The paper examines how Daoist and popular cult ‘technologies of time’ move beyond imperial boundaries in a movement of Maussian civilisational exchange
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Civilization · Contradiction · Cult · Emperor · Epistemology · Literature · Political science · Power (physics) · Presumption · Sociology · Vision · Anthropology · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy
Culture, Power, and the State
The imperial metaphor
To Become a God
History and magical power in a Chinese community
The religion of China
TEN. Standardizing the Gods
Emperor and Ancestor
The Taoist Canon
The Global and Regional in China's Nation-Formation
In Search of the Folk Daoists of North China
Taoist Ritual and Popular Cults of Southeast China
Early Chinese Religion, Part Two
Transformations of the She (altars of the soil) in Fujian
Society and the Supernatural in Song China
Family Lineage Organization and Social Change in Ming and Qing Fujian
Ming Princes and Daoist Ritual
Cultural Links between Insulindian Chinese and Fujian as Reflected in Two Late 17th-Century Epigraphs
Culture, Power, and the State. Rural North China, 1900-1942
Rescuing History from the Nation
Ritual, Cultural Standardization, and Orthopraxy in China
Orthopraxy Revisited
Negotiating local tradition with Taoism
Superscribing Symbols
History and Magical Power in a Chinese Community
Sojourners and Settlers
Some Chinese Directions in Anthropology
Goodby to Tristes Tropes
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,46 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |