Religion and Folk Belief in Chinese Literature and Theatre

Religion and Folk Belief in Chinese Literature and Theatre

This edited volume offers a historical, textual and ethnoanthropological exploration of the meaning and value of religion and ritual and their form and function in relation to Chinese literature and theatre. The term 'theatre' is used here to refer broadly to various types of live performa...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
Subjects:
Religion & beliefs
baojuan (precious scrolls)
Buddhism
buddhist narrative
cheng 成
Cheng 誠
China
chinese folklore
Chinese literature
Chinese religions
Classical Confucianism
collective memory
completion
cultural heritage
Daoism
Deng Zhimo
dramas
folk traditions
hagiography
Han paintings
Han rhapsody (fu)
Hantomb stone reliefs
indigenous studies
Jiacun Double-Fourth Temple Festival
legend
Liaozhai zhiyi
literature
Lü Dongbin
metaphor
Miao (Hmong) ethnic group
Miao culture
Ming
monks
mythology
oral performance
Pei Yue
performance ethnography
performance studies
poems
popular religion
print culture
religion
ritual
ritual practice
Sa Shoujian
scroll recitation
shamanism
Shangdang
Sichuan
sincerity
social association
sorcery and witchcraft
state presence
telling scriptures
temple festival
temple theatre
the Primordial Sovereign of the Morning Clouds (Bixia yuanjun)
the Queen Mother of the West (Xiwangmu)
the Wuliang Shrine
willow
Xiud Yax Lus Qim (Yalu wang)
Xu Xun
Yuan zaju
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