Religious Culture and Violence in Traditional China
Barend (Universitat Hamburg) ter Haar
Cambridge University Press, 2019
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Summarizes the most important aspects of the role of violence in Chinese religious culture. These include counteracting the threat and fear of demonic attacks, maintaining norms and values, and expressing respect through sacrificial gifts of meat. Explores how violence was justified as positive use of physical force.
- ISBN-13
- 9781108706230
- ISBN-10
- 1108706231
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2019
- Publication date
- 2019-05-30
- Pages
- 86
- Dimensions
- 127x178x6
- Weight
- 94