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Death Rituals and Politics in Northern Song China (Hardcover)
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Death Rituals and Politics in Northern Song China (Hardcover)
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This study examines how political and legal disputes regarding the
performance of death rituals contributed to an 11th-century revival
of Confucianism in Northern Song China. Under Emperor Renzong (r.
1022-1063), court officials came to a consensus that the Confucian
tradition was the sole legitimate source for imperial rituals, and
thus put an end to the controversial civil program of honoring the
royal ancestors with the Daoist liturgy. New legislation on the
legal obligation of civil officers to observe the three-year period
of mourning gave rise to frequent allegations of ritual violation,
which in turn necessitated further studies of the classical ritual
texts, the passing of additional laws, and the writing of new
ritual manuals. Amid fierce factional divisions, a group of
scholar-officials led by Sima Guang envisioned a statecraft that
would lend more power to the bureaucracy, and provoked a series of
political disputes with their criticism of the emperor's ritual
violations. This group advocated the moral reformation of society.
They believed in the canonical rituals' capacity to bring
hierarchical social order, and waged campaigns against Buddhist and
Daoist rituals, challenging their alleged capacity to ensure the
well-being of the deceased in the world -beyond. Despite their
efforts, funerary and burial practices would continue to be sites
of contestation between ritual agents and their differing notions
about life after death as well as for ritual preferences linked to
their social status, political visions, and religious belief.
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