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Knotting the Banner - Ritual and Relationship in Daoist Practice (Hardcover)
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Knotting the Banner - Ritual and Relationship in Daoist Practice (Hardcover)
Series: New Daoist Studies
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This book adds richly not only to understanding of the unique form
of Daoism in Central Hunan today, but to the entire fashi tradition
that rose to prominence in the Song-Yuan. In the hills of China's
central Hunan province, an anxious young apprentice officiates over
a Daoist ritual known as the Banner Rite to Summon Sire Yin. Before
a crowd of masters, relatives, and villagers-and the entire
pantheon of gods and deceased masters ritually invited to witness
the event-he seeks to summon Celestial Lord Yin Jiao, the ferocious
deity who supplies the exorcistic power to protect and heal bodies
and spaces from illness and misfortune. If the apprentice cannot
bring forth the deity, the rite is considered a failure and the
ordination suspended: His entire professional career hangs in the
balance before it even begins. This richly textured study asks how
the Banner Rite works or fails to work in its own terms. How do the
cosmological, theological, and anthropological assumptions
ensconced in the ritual itself account for its own efficacy or
inefficacy? Weaving together ethnography, textual analysis,
photography, and film, David J. Mozina invites readers into the
religious world of ritual masters in today's south China. He shows
that the efficacy of rituals like the Banner Rite is driven by the
ability of a ritual master to form an intimate relationship with
exorcistic deities like Yin Jiao, which is far from guaranteed.
Mozina reveals the ways in which such ritual claims are rooted in
the great liturgical movements of the Song and Yuan dynasties
(960-1368) and how they are performed these days amid the social
and economic pressures of rural life in the post-Mao era. Written
for students and scholars of Daoism and Chinese religion, Knotting
the Banner will also appeal to anthropologists and comparative
religionists, especially those working on ritual.
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