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ISBN 10: 1438453078
ISBN 13: 978-1438453071
Author: Jinhua Jia, Xiaofei Kang, Ping Yao
A gender-critical consideration of women and religion in Chinese traditions from medieval to modern times.
Gendering Chinese Religion marks the emergence of a subfield on women, gender, and religion in China studies. Ranging from the medieval period to the present day, this volume departs from the conventional and often male-centered categorization of Chinese religions into Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, and popular religion. It makes two compelling arguments. First, Chinese women have deployed specific religious ideas and rituals to empower themselves in various social contexts. Second, gendered perceptions and representations of Chinese religions have been indispensable to the historical and contemporary construction of social and political power. The contributors use innovative ways of discovering and applying a rich variety of sources, many previously ignored by scholars. While each of the chapters in this interdisciplinary work represents a distinct perspective, together they form a coherent dialogue about the historical importance, intellectual possibilities, and methodological protocols of this new subfield.
Gendering Chinese Religion 1st Table of contents:
Part I. Restoring Female Religiosity and Subjectivity
1. Tang Women in the Transformation of Buddhist Filiality
Introduction
The Manifestation of Buddhist Filiality in Medieval China
Filial Buddhist Daughters
The Mother’s Role in Defining Buddhist Filiality
Conclusion
Notes
2. Writing Oneself into the Tradition: The Autobiographical Sermon of Chan Master Jizong Xingche (b. 1606)
The Context: Women Monastics in the Seventeenth-Century Revival of Linji Chan
Woman Chan Master Jizong Xingche and Her Autobiographical Sermon
Concluding Remarks
Notes
3. Making Religion, Making the New Woman: Reading Su Xuelin’s Autobiographical Novel Jixin (Thorny Heart)
Introduction
Mother-Daughter Love: “Feudal” Burden or Alternative Nationalism?
Whose Catholicism? Whose Confucianism? Whose Religion?
The “Woman Question” and the Dissenting Voice of Su Xuelin
(Women) (Re)Making Religion in Modern China
Notes
Part II. Redefining Identity and Tradition
4. The Identity of Tang Daoist Priestesses
Introduction
Sexual Practice in Daoist Tradition and the Changing of Gender Relations
The Cult of Erotic Goddesses and the Self-Empowerment of Daoist Priestesses
Educational Level and Socioeconomic Status of Tang Daoist Priestesses
Concluding Remarks
Notes
5. Revisiting White-haired Girl: Women, Gender, and Religion in Communist Revolutionary Propaganda
Introduction
A Brief History of White-haired Girl
From Anti-Superstition to National Myth
From a Goddess to a Ghost
Gender and Religion in Xi’er’s Salvation
Victimization and Collective Emotion in the Creation of Political Religiosity
Conclusion: From Anti-Superstition to the Cult of Mao
Notes
6. Negotiating between Two Patriarchies: Chinese Christian Women in Postcolonial Hong Kong
Introduction
Out of Chinese Patriarchy
Confronting Christian Patriarchy
Manipulating Space and Time
Reinterpretation of Tradition
Conclusion: Between Two Patriarchies
Notes
Part III. Recovering Bodily Differences
7. Birthing the Self: Metaphor and Transformation in Medieval Daoism
Introduction
Common Ideas of Embryology
Daoist Embryology of the Perfected
Producing the Ruddy Infant
Reversing Gestation: Unknotting the Knots of Death
Conclusion
Notes
8. Female Alchemy: Transformation of a Gendered Body
Introduction
A Brief History of nüdan Texts
The Rise of nüdan and Its Social Context
The nüdan Discourse and the Patriarchal Tradition
Female Physiology and Its Transformations
Conclusion
Notes
9. A Religious Menopausal Ritual: Changing Body, Identity, and Values
Introduction
The Ritual of Jiezhu
Glorification of a Married Life
Changing Body, Changing Identity
Mother-Daughter Bonding
Conclusion
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