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Zhenwu, or the Perfected Warrior, is one of the few Chinese Deities
that can rightfully claim a countrywide devotion. Religious
specialists, lay devotees, the state machine, and the cultural
industry all participated, both collaboratively and competitively,
in the evolution of this devotional movement. This book centres on
the development and transformation of the godhead of Zhenwu, as
well as the devotional movement focused on him. Organised
chronologically on the development of the Zhenwu worship in Daoist
rituals, state religion, and popular practices, it looks at the
changes in the way Zhenwu was perceived, and the historical context
in which those changes took place. The author investigates the
complicated means by which various social and political groups
contested with each other in appropriating cultural-religious
symbols. The question at the core of the book is how, in a given
historical context, human agents and social institutions shape the
religious world to which they profess devotion. The work offers a
holistic approach to religion in a period of Chinese history when
central, local, official, clerical and popular power are constantly
negotiating and reshaping established values.
Zhenwu, or the Perfected Warrior, is one of the few Chinese Deities
that can rightfully claim a countrywide devotion. Religious
specialists, lay devotees, the state machine, and the cultural
industry all participated, both collaboratively and competitively,
in the evolution of this devotional movement. This book centres on
the development and transformation of the godhead of Zhenwu, as
well as the devotional movement focused on him. Organised
chronologically on the development of the Zhenwu worship in Daoist
rituals, state religion, and popular practices, it looks at the
changes in the way Zhenwu was perceived, and the historical context
in which those changes took place. The author investigates the
complicated means by which various social and political groups
contested with each other in appropriating cultural-religious
symbols. The question at the core of the book is how, in a given
historical context, human agents and social institutions shape the
religious world to which they profess devotion. The work offers a
holistic approach to religion in a period of Chinese history when
central, local, official, clerical and popular power are constantly
negotiating and reshaping established values.
This volume explores practices and experiences in Chinese popular
religion. The research adds new materials and new approaches to
well-known worships such as the cults of doomsday, underworld, and
Lord Guan on the one hand, and draws attention to under-the-radar
deities and holy figures hiding in the mountainous countryside or
among the urban crowd. While this book centers on Chinese popular
religion, it will be of use to non-China scholars in folklore,
religious art, and ritual studies as well as China scholars in
popular culture from late-medieval to contemporary times.
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