Jimmy Yu is the Sheng Yen Assistant Professor of Chinese Buddhist Studies at Florida State University and a grant committee advisor of the Sheng Yen Education Foundation Grant for Ph.D. Dissertation Research on Modern Chinese Buddhism. He teaches courses in East Asian religious traditions, specializing in Chinese Buddhism and late imperial Chinese cultural history.
In this illuminating study of a vital but long overlooked aspect of Chinese religious life, Jimmy Yu reveals that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, self-inflicted violence was an essential and sanctioned part of Chinese culture. He examines a wide range of practices, including blood writing, filial body-slicing, chastity mutilations and suicides, ritual exposure, and self-immolation, arguing that each practice was public, scripted, and a signal of cultural expectations. Individuals engaged in acts of self-inflicted violence to exercise power and to affect society, by articulating moral values, reinstituting order, forging new social relations, and protecting against the threat of moral ambiguity. Self-inflicted violence was intelligible both to the person doing the act and to those who viewed and interpreted it, regardless of the various religions of the period: Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and other religions. This book is a groundbreaking contribution to scholarship on bodily practices in late imperial China, challenging preconceived ideas about analytic categories of religion, culture, and ritual in the study of Chinese religions.
發表於2024-12-23
Sanctity and Self-Inflicted Violence in Chinese Religions, 1500-1700 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
圖書標籤: 宗教 英文版 曆史 佛教 religion 自我暴力 神聖性 海外中國研究
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評分I don't see what is so religious about the filial body slicing in his rendering. The reading of Vinaya narrative is sadly careless. "The plot is basically the same", well, many stories are basically the same if you just look at the plot.
評分非常棒,填補瞭很多學術上的空缺。在深究佛道宗教性影響時略有不足。在討論比如說割股的傳統源起時略有牽強。
評分非常棒,填補瞭很多學術上的空缺。在深究佛道宗教性影響時略有不足。在討論比如說割股的傳統源起時略有牽強。
Sanctity and Self-Inflicted Violence in Chinese Religions, 1500-1700 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載