This book focuses on one of the few Chinese deities that can rightfully claima countrywide devotion, Zhenwu or the Perfected Warrior. Investigating the complicated means by which various social and political groups contested with each other in appropriating cultural-religious symbols, it shows how, in a givenhistorical context, human agents and social institutions shape the religious world.
- ISBN: 978-0-415-78066-7
- Editorial: Routledge
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha Publicación: 31/08/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés