Oaths and Curses in Divine Empyrean Practice
This essay searches for the theoretical underpinnings of oath-making between deities and human masters found in Daoist practice in today’s Hunan province. It shows that the practice of deities concluding oaths with masters was grounded in the cosmological and theological vision of Divine Empyrean (S...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
[2020]
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Journal of Chinese religions
Year: 2020, Volume: 48, Issue: 1, Pages: 31-58 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bai, Yuchan 1194-1227
/ Wang, Wenqing 1093-1153
/ China
/ Taoism
/ Oath
/ Curse
/ God
/ Heaven
/ Cosmology
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| RelBib Classification: | BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism KBM Asia |
| Further subjects: | B
Divine Empyrean (Shenxiao 神霄)
B Oath B Daoism B thunder deities (leishen雷神) B 神霄 B 宇宙觀 B 雷神 B Curse B Bai Yuchan 白玉蟾 B 道教 B 白玉蟾 B Cosmology B 盟誓 B 王文卿 B Wang Wenqing 王文卿 |
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Volltext (Verlag) |