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Sanctity and Self-Inflicted Violence in Chinese Religions, 1500-1700 (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,886
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Sanctity and Self-Inflicted Violence in Chinese Religions, 1500-1700 (Hardcover): Jimmy Yu

Sanctity and Self-Inflicted Violence in Chinese Religions, 1500-1700 (Hardcover)

Jimmy Yu

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In this illuminating study of a vital but long overlooked aspect of Chinese religious life, Jimmy Yu reveals that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, self-inflicted violence was an essential and sanctioned part of Chinese culture. He examines a wide range of practices, including blood writing, filial body-slicing, chastity mutilations and suicides, ritual exposure, and self-immolation, arguing that each practice was public, scripted, and a signal of certain cultural expectations. Yu shows how individuals engaged in acts of self-inflicted violence to exercise power and to affect society, by articulating moral values, reinstituting order, forging new social relations, and protecting against the threat of moral ambiguity. Self-inflicted violence was intelligible both to the person doing the act and to those who viewed and interpreted it, regardless of the various religions of the period: Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and other religions. Self-inflicted violence as a category reveals scholarly biases that tend to marginalize or exaggerate certain phenomena in Chinese culture. Yu offers a groundbreaking contribution to scholarship on bodily practices in late imperial China, challenging preconceived ideas about analytic categories of religion, culture, and ritual in the study of Chinese religions.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: May 2012
First published: April 2012
Authors: Jimmy Yu (Sheng Yen Assistant Professor of Chinese Buddhist Studies)
Dimensions: 238 x 162 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-984488-3
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > History of religion
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict > General
Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > History of religion
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict > General
LSN: 0-19-984488-7
Barcode: 9780199844883

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