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Routledge Believing in Ghosts and Spirits: The Concept of Gui in Ancient China (Monumenta Serica Monograph Series)

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Product Description The present book by Hu Baozhu explores the subject of ghosts and spirits and attempts to map the religious landscape of ancient China. The main focus of attention is the character gui 鬼, an essential key to the understanding of spiritual beings. The author analyses the character gui in various materials – lexicons and dictionaries, excavated manuscripts and inscriptions, and received classical texts. Gui is examined from the perspective of its linguistic root, literary interpretation, ritual practices, sociopolitical implication, and cosmological thinking. In the gradual process of coming to know the otherworld in terms of ghosts and spirits, Chinese people in ancient times attempted to identify and classify these spiritual entities. In their philosophical thinking, they connected the subject of gui with the movement of the universe. Thus the belief in ghosts and spirits in ancient China appeared to be a moral standard for all, not only providing a room for individual religiosity but also implementing the purpose of family-oriented social order, the legitimization of political operations, and the understanding of the way of Heaven and Earth. About the Author Anthony Hu (Hu Baozhu 胡寳柱) received his M.Div. in 2009 and M.A. in Theology in 2010, both at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. He took up his studies in Sinology at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich in the fall of 2011 and passed his Ph.D. exam in February 2018. Since May 2018, he works in the editorial office of the Monumenta Serica Institute. His main research areas include popular religions and culture in China, demonology, communications and cultural exchanges between the West and East, and Christian missions in the period of Ming-Qing.

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Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0367626349
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Ancient History & Civilisation > China
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 22 September 2020
Listed Since: 19 June 2020

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