The Sinister Way: The Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious Culture by Von Glahn, Richard

The Sinister Way: The Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious Culture (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520234086)

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The Sinister Way: The Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious Culture by Von Glahn, Richard

The Sinister Way: The Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious Culture

$85.00
The Sinister Way: The Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious Culture by Von Glahn, Richard

The Sinister Way: The Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious Culture

$85.00
Format: Hardcover
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The most striking feature of Wutong, the preeminent God of Wealth in late imperial China, was the deity's diabolical character. Wutong was perceived not as a heroic figure or paragon of noble qualities but rather as an embodiment of humanity's basest vices, greed and lust, a maleficent demon who preyed on the weak and vulnerable. In The Sinister Way, Richard von Glahn examines the emergence and evolution of the Wutong cult within the larger framework of the historical development of Chinese popular or vernacular religion--as opposed to institutional religions such as Buddhism or Daoism. Von Glahn's study, spanning three millennia, gives due recognition to the morally ambivalent and demonic aspects of divine power within the common Chinese religious culture.

Author: Richard Von Glahn
ISBN-10: 0520234081
ISBN-13: 9780520234086
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 04/20/2004
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.66lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.38w x 1.22d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2004 pg. 716
By Richard Von Glahn
By Richard Von Glahn
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Richard von Glahn is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the coeditor of The Song-Yuan-Ming Transition in Chinese History (2003) and the author of Fountain of Fortune: Money and Monetary Policy in China, 1000-1700 (California, 1996) and The Country of Streams and Grottoes: Expansion, Settlement, and the Civilizing of the Sichuan Frontier in Song Times (1987).

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