Cultivation, Salvation, and Obligation: Quanzhen Daoist Thoughts on Family Abandonment

This article explores one of the great paradoxes of imperial China: the rise of religions that required qijia (family abandonment) in a society that privileged a patriarchal family system. Grounded in the case of Quanzhen Daoism, the article examines representations of qijia in poetry, hagiographies...

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Main Author: Wang, Jinping 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Chicago Press 2022
In: History of religions
Year: 2022, Volume: 62, Issue: 2, Pages: 115-155
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Ch'üan-chen-tao / Detachment / Family / Filial love
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism
KBM Asia
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