TY  - BOOK
AU  - Liu,Yonghua
TI  - Confucian rituals and Chinese villagers ritual change and social transformation in a southeastern Chinese community, 1368-1949
T2  - Religion in Chinese Societies
SN  - 9789004257252
AV  - BL1840 .L585 2013eb
U1  - 299.5/12380951245 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Confucianism
KW  - China, Southeast
KW  - History
KW  - Rituals
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Religion and sociology
KW  - Neo-Confucianism
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
KW  - Spirituality
KW  - Paganism & Neo-Paganism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Comparative Religion
KW  - Religious life and customs
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part one. Introduction -- part two. Lisheng as cultural mediators -- part three. Lineage, ritual, and corporate estates -- part four. A strange community compact? -- part five. The worship of gods
N2  - In 'Confucian rituals and chinese villagers', Yonghua Liu presents a detailed study of how a southeastern Chinese community experienced and responded to the process whereby Confucian rituals - previously thought unfit for practice by commoners - were adopted in the Chinese countryside and became an integral part of village culture, from the mid fourteenth to mid twentieth centuries. The book examines the important but understudied ritual specialists, masters of rites (lisheng), and their ritual handbooks while showing their crucial role in the ritual life of Chinese villagers. This discussion of lisheng and their rituals deepens our understanding of the ritual aspect of popular Confucianism and sheds new light on social and cultural transformations in late imperial China.0
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