Late Imperial Chinese Anticlericalism and the Division of Ritual Labor

This article proposes to place the anticlerical discourses in late imperial China (1368-1912), notably directed at professional Buddhists and Daoists, in a social context where the rights and duties of religious specialists were closely regulated by local social institutions (rather than by the stat...

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Main Author: Goossaert, Vincent 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Chicago Press 2021
In: History of religions
Year: 2021, Volume: 61, Issue: 1, Pages: 87-104
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B China / Taoism / Buddhism / Ritual / Layman / Anti-clericalism / History 1368-1912
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
BL Buddhism
BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism
KBM Asia
KCA Monasticism; religious orders
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