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The Sinister Way: The Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious Culture

The Sinister Way: The Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious Culture

Von Glahn, Richard

Hardcover

Comparative ReligionGeneral Asian HistoryGeneral Eastern Religions

ISBN10: 0520234081
ISBN13: 9780520234086
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Apr 20 2004
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.66
Height: 1.22 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.28
Language: English
The most striking feature of Wutong, the preeminent God of Wealth in late imperial China, was the deity's diabolical character. Wutong was perceived not as a heroic figure or paragon of noble qualities but rather as an embodiment of humanity's basest vices, greed and lust, a maleficent demon who preyed on the weak and vulnerable. In The Sinister Way, Richard von Glahn examines the emergence and evolution of the Wutong cult within the larger framework of the historical development of Chinese popular or vernacular religion--as opposed to institutional religions such as Buddhism or Daoism. Von Glahn's study, spanning three millennia, gives due recognition to the morally ambivalent and demonic aspects of divine power within the common Chinese religious culture.

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