... His ancestor may have "imperially bestowed" the temple but had not &quo... more ... His ancestor may have "imperially bestowed" the temple but had not "imperially founded it," and he, Jiajing, objected strongly to the name "Tem-ple of the Imperial Aunt." How could it be said that "one wizard nun (yaoni ШЕ) was able to protect the Great Ming?"16 Despite this ...
Temples were natural agoras: the gods housed in their buildings attracted socially diverse believ... more Temples were natural agoras: the gods housed in their buildings attracted socially diverse believers and the festivals celebrating those gods drew crowds from near and often far. This chapter examines the technologies behind "temple culture" by directing our attention toward one ordinary town, Shou, a low level administrative center on the southeastern edge of the North China plain during late imperial times (ca. 1400-1900). It argues in a small city like Shouzhou, Anhui, temples provided attractive accessible space for family and group activities that can be called broadly religious. It was these human and natural resources that created specific variants of the wider Chinese temple culture. Keywords:Anhui; China; religious culture; Shouzhou; temples
... His ancestor may have "imperially bestowed" the temple but had not &quo... more ... His ancestor may have "imperially bestowed" the temple but had not "imperially founded it," and he, Jiajing, objected strongly to the name "Tem-ple of the Imperial Aunt." How could it be said that "one wizard nun (yaoni ШЕ) was able to protect the Great Ming?"16 Despite this ...
Temples were natural agoras: the gods housed in their buildings attracted socially diverse believ... more Temples were natural agoras: the gods housed in their buildings attracted socially diverse believers and the festivals celebrating those gods drew crowds from near and often far. This chapter examines the technologies behind "temple culture" by directing our attention toward one ordinary town, Shou, a low level administrative center on the southeastern edge of the North China plain during late imperial times (ca. 1400-1900). It argues in a small city like Shouzhou, Anhui, temples provided attractive accessible space for family and group activities that can be called broadly religious. It was these human and natural resources that created specific variants of the wider Chinese temple culture. Keywords:Anhui; China; religious culture; Shouzhou; temples
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