The Guanyin Fertility Cult and Family Religion in Late Imperial China: Repertoires across Domains in the Practice of Popular Religion
This study examines the unprecedented growth of the late imperial Chinese cult of Guanyin, “Bestower of Children.” Focusing on a fertility manual written by a sixteenth-century Confucian official, I show how the author combined the Guanyin cult with Daoist bio-spiritual discourse and Confucian moral...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2019]
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 87, Issue: 1, Pages: 156-190 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
China
/ Guanyin
/ Fertility cult
/ Folk religion
/ Family
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism TJ Modern history |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) Volltext (doi) |