Envisaging the Invisible
After defining a regime of visibility this article proceeds by contrasting two such regimes, of imperial China and of European Christendom. It also traces the emergence in the envisaging of an underworld of the dead in both early imperial China and Hellenic Greece of a judgement of misdeed, and then...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Italian |
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Morcelliana
2014
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Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
Year: 2014, Volume: 80, Issue: 1, Pages: 107-120 |
| Further subjects: | B
regno di Cristo
B Taoism B Salvezza B Dead B Daoism B Europe B the dead B giudizio B SALVATION in Christianity B Christianity B defunti B Psychological judgment; Religious aspects B Salvation B Buddhism B Judgement B China B Salvation in Buddhism B Mythology B Christendom B buddhismo B daoismo |
| Summary: | After defining a regime of visibility this article proceeds by contrasting two such regimes, of imperial China and of European Christendom. It also traces the emergence in the envisaging of an underworld of the dead in both early imperial China and Hellenic Greece of a judgement of misdeed, and then of the deepening of that vision by rituals and religions of salvation. The comparison of regimes of visibility continues from there. In China it includes both judgement and salvation of the dead and the protection and exorcism of the settlements of the living in China, contrasting this with their separation in Europe: the day of judgement from carnivals. Another contrast is that of the spectacle of visible authority and wealth in Europe with Chinese imperial invisibility. But in both judgement and death rituals are occasions of manifestation of an invisible world and the telling of didactic stories of virtue and redemption envisaging imperial judgement and response. (English) |
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| ISSN: | 2611-8742 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
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