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shahar.book Page i Monday, December 3, 2001 10:52 AM Unruly Gods shahar.book Page ii Monday, December 3, 2001 10:52 AM shahar.book Page iii Monday, December 3, 2001 10:52 AM Unruly Gods Divinity and Society in China Edited by Meir Shahar and Robert P. Weller University of Hawai‘i Press, Honolulu shahar.book Page iv Monday, December 3, 2001 10:52 AM © 1996 University of Hawai‘i Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 96 97 98 99 00 01 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Unruly gods : divinity and society in China / edited by Meir Shahar and Robert P. Weller. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0–8248–1724–9 (alk. paper) 1. China—Religion. 2. China—Religious life and customs. 3. Gods, Chinese. I. Shahar, Meir. II. Weller, Robert P. (Robert Paul), 1953– . BL1802.U67 1996 299’.51—dc20 96–5144 CIP University of Hawai‘i Press books are printed on acid- free paper and meet the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Council on Library Resources Book design by Kenneth Miyamoto shahar.book Page v Monday, December 3, 2001 10:52 AM Contents Acknowledgments vii 1. Introduction: Gods and Society in China 1 Meir Shahar and Robert P. Weller 2. Personal Relations and Bureaucratic Hierarchy in Chinese Religion: Evidence from the Song Dynasty 37 Robert Hymes 3. Enlightened Alchemist or Immoral Immortal? The Growth of Lü Dongbin’s Cult in Late Imperial China 70 Paul R. Katz 4. The Lady Linshui: How a Woman Became a Goddess 105 Brigitte Baptandier 5. Myths, Gods, and Family Relations 150 P.Steven Sangren 6. Vernacular Fiction and the Transmission of Gods’ Cults in Late Imperial China 184 Meir Shahar 7. Transmission in Popular Religion: The Jiajiang Festival Troupe of Southern Taiwan 212 Donald S. Sutton 8. Matricidal Magistrates and Gambling Gods: Weak States and Strong Spirits in China 250 Robert P. Weller Glossary 269 Index 279 Contributors 289 v shahar.book Page vi Monday, December 3, 2001 10:52 AM shahar.book Page vii Monday, December 3, 2001 10:52 AM Acknowledgments This book grew out of a double-session panel entitled “Chinese Gods beyond the Bureaucracy” at the 1992 annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies. The original participants in this panel were: Ursula-Angelika Cedzich, Robert Hymes, Paul Katz, P.Steven Sangren, Meir Shahar, and Robert Weller. (Cedzich had by then already committed her paper for publication elsewhere.) We are grateful to the two discussants at the panel, David Johnson and James L. Watson, for their useful comments and suggestions. The manuscript benefited from the comments of anonymous readers for University of Hawai‘i Press as well as suggestions made by Stephen F. Teiser. We are grateful to them all. Finally, we would like to express our thanks to our editor at the University of Hawai‘i Press, Patricia Crosby. Meir Shahar Robert P. Weller vii shahar.book Page viii Monday, December 3, 2001 10:52 AM shahar.book Page ix Monday, December 3, 2001 10:52 AM Unruly Gods shahar.book Page viii Monday, December 3, 2001 10:52 AM
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