Kenneth Dean 
Lord of the Three in One [EPUB ebook] 
The Spread of a Cult in Southeast China

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An illuminating account of the steadfast resilience of rural popular culture in post-Mao China
Lin Zhao’en (1517–1598) set out to popularize Confucianism by combining Confucian studies with Daoist inner alchemical techniques and Buddhist Chan philosophy into something he called the Three in One Teachings. Despite periods of clandestine activity since its inception, the Three in One cult has undergone a remarkable revival in post-Mao China. Today, in more than a thousand temples by tens of thousands of cult initiates, Lin is worshipped throughout Southeast China and Southeast Asia as Lord of the Three in One. Many of the temples have been restored since the late 1970s, when China began to experience an explosive resurgence of popular culture and religion. In this book, Kenneth Dean draws on a decade of field work to document the reemergence of this cult, which seeks to transmit a universal vision of truth yet retains a strong local appeal through its healing rituals and spirit mediumism. Although the Chinese government still tries to suppress these resurgences in the interest of modernization, the cult’s locally based networks are unstoppable social forces.
Dean explores the organization and transmission of the Three in One’s unique cultural vision, the reception of this vision, and the construction of subjectivity within a vibrant ritual tradition. Outlining such features as inner alchemical meditation, scripture and iconography, ritual practice, and spirit mediumism, he demonstrates the cult’s transformative potential as well as its contemporaneity and dynamism. Rural Chinese popular culture emerges here as resilient, highly complex, and always evolving.

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Kenneth Dean is professor of Chinese studies at the National University of Singapore. His books include
Taoist Ritual and Popular Cults of Southeast China (Princeton) and (with Brian Massumi)
First and Last Emperors: The Absolute State and the Body of the Despot.

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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● Pagine 393 ● ISBN 9780691261218 ● Dimensione 11.8 MB ● Casa editrice Princeton University Press ● Città Princeton ● Paese US ● Pubblicato 2023 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 9237674 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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