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Changing Gods in Medieval China, 1127-1276 (Hardcover)
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Changing Gods in Medieval China, 1127-1276 (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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In her study of medieval Chinese lay practices and beliefs, Valerie
Hansen argues that social and economic developments underlay
religious changes in the Southern Song. Unfamiliar with the
contents of Buddhist and Daoist texts, the common people hired the
practitioner or prayed to the god they thought could cure the ill
or bring rain. As the economy rapidly developed, the gods, like the
people who worshiped them, diversified: their realm of influence
expanded as some gods began to deal on the national grain market
and others advised their followers on business transactions. In
order to trace this evolution, the author draws information from
temple inscriptions, literary notes, the administrative law code,
and local histories. By contrasting differing rates of religious
change in the lowland and highland regions of the lower Yangzi
valley, Hansen suggests that the commercial and social developments
were far less uniform than previously thought. In 1100, nearly all
people in South China worshiped gods who had been local residents
prior to their deaths. The increasing mobility of cultivators in
the lowland, rice-growing regions resulted in the adoption of gods
from other places. Cults in the isolated mountain areas showed
considerably less change. Originally published in 1990. The
Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology
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presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The
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to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books
published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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