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245 10 a| Flourishing fasts :b| vegetarian sects in late imperial and modern Chinese societies /c| Nikolas Broy.;

264 1 a| Cambridge, Massachusetts ;a| London :b| Harvard University Asia Center,c| 2025.;

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300 a| xix, 480 pages :b| illustrations (some color), 2 maps ;c| 24 cm.;

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490 1 a| Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ;;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-469) and index.;

505 00 g| Part One.t| History.t| Analytical Approaches to Chinese Sectarianism and Local Society: Nonconformist Dissenters, Popular Buddhists, Lay Practitioners --t| From Late Imperial China to Modern Taiwan: A Translocal Entangled History of the Vegetarian Sects --t| Japanization and Beyond: Monastic Buddhists and the Perils of Competition in Twentieth-Century Taiwan --g| Part Two.t| Repertoires. Mother Mythologies: Eschatology, the Mother-Child Dyad, and the Path Back Home --t| The Sectarian Repertoire: Zhaijiao Symbols, Beliefs, and Practices and Chinese Religious Life --t| Lamps, Altars, and Vegetarian Halls: The Architecture of Religious Practice --t| Iconophobia and Moral Feasts: Salvationism, Ritualism, and Gendered Self-Cultivation --g| Part Three.t| Embeddedness. Of the People, for the People: Zhaijiao and Taiwanese Society --t| Passing the Light: The Longhuapai Initiation Festival --t| Epilogue. Sectarian Groups as Arrangements.;

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Flourishing fasts : vegetarian sects in late imperial and modern Chinese societies / Nikolas Broy.

Author/creator	Broy, Nikolas, 1980- author.
Format	Book
Publication	Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London : Harvard University Asia Center, 2025.
Distribution	[Cambridge, Massachusetts] : Distributed by Harvard University Press
Description	xix, 480 pages : illustrations (some color), 2 maps ; 24 cm.
Subjects	Buddhist sects--China. --History. Buddhism--Relations. Fasting--China. --Religious aspects. --Buddhism. Buddhist sects--Taiwan. --History. Vegetarianism--China. --History. Fasting--Taiwan. --Religious aspects. --Buddhism. Vegetarianism--Taiwan. --History. China--Religion. Taiwan--Religion.

Series	Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 148. http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/50264cd9-5596-9bce-c3fa-fb3ccea41c84 ^A28185
Contents	Part One. History. Analytical Approaches to Chinese Sectarianism and Local Society: Nonconformist Dissenters, Popular Buddhists, Lay Practitioners -- From Late Imperial China to Modern Taiwan: A Translocal Entangled History of the Vegetarian Sects -- Japanization and Beyond: Monastic Buddhists and the Perils of Competition in Twentieth-Century Taiwan -- Part Two. Repertoires. Mother Mythologies: Eschatology, the Mother-Child Dyad, and the Path Back Home -- The Sectarian Repertoire: Zhaijiao Symbols, Beliefs, and Practices and Chinese Religious Life -- Lamps, Altars, and Vegetarian Halls: The Architecture of Religious Practice -- Iconophobia and Moral Feasts: Salvationism, Ritualism, and Gendered Self-Cultivation -- Part Three. Embeddedness. Of the People, for the People: Zhaijiao and Taiwanese Society -- Passing the Light: The Longhuapai Initiation Festival -- Epilogue. Sectarian Groups as Arrangements.
Abstract	"Flourishing Fasts is the first book in any language to explore the history of the Zhaijiao, commonly translated as "vegetarian sects," that originated in southeastern China during the Ming and Qing dynasties and are still active in contemporary Taiwan. Combining historical analysis and ethnographic fieldwork, Nikolas Broy reveals the entangled nature of the Zhaijiao-and other Chinese sectarian groups-within their socioreligious environment. Conventionally considered nonconformist dissenters or lay Buddhists, the Zhaijiao in fact embody one intersection of the "Three Teachings" of Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism and manifest aspects of local religious life and universal salvationist teachings. Not limited to everyday religious rites such as worshiping local gods, conducting initiation festivals, and performing ritual services for nonmembers, the Zhaijiao also serve as institutions around which social and political life are centered-for example through mobilizing local resources for public enterprises or articulating property rights vis-à-vis the state."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-469) and index.
Issued in other form	Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Broy, Nikolas, 1980- Flourishing fasts Cambridge : Harvard University Asia Center, 2025 9780674302525
LCCN	2025021733
ISBN	9780674302532
ISBN	0674302532 (hardcover)
ISBN	epub

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