In 142 CE, the divine Lord Lao descended to Mount Cranecall (Sichuan province) to establish a new covenant with humanity through a man named Zhang Ling, the first Celestial Master. Facing an impending apocalypse caused by centuries of sin, Zhang and his descendants forged a communal faith centering on a universal priesthood, strict codes of conduct, and healing through the conf...
In 142 CE, the divine Lord Lao descended to Mount Cranecall (Sichuan province) to establish a new covenant with humanity through a man named Zhang Ling, the first Celestial Master. Facing an impending apocalypse caused by centuries of sin, Zhang and his descendants forged a communal faith centering on a universal priesthood, strict codes of conduct, and healing through the confession of sins; this faith was based upon a new, bureaucratic relationship with incorruptible supernatural administrators. By the fourth century, Celestial Master Daoism had spread to all parts of China, and has since played a key role in China’s religious and intellectual history.
Celestial Masters is the first book in any Western language devoted solely to the founding of the world religion Daoism. It traces the movement from the mid-second century CE through the sixth century, examining all surviving primary documents in both secular and canonical sources to offer a comprehensive account of the development of this poorly understood religion. It also provides a detailed analysis of ritual life within the movement, covering the roles of common believer or Daoist citizen, novice, and priest or libationer.
作者简介
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Terry F. Kleeman is Professor of Chinese in the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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To conclude, we should be grateful to Kleeman for offering workable translations of a rich selection of excerpts from ancient sources relevant to religion in premodern China, especially in Part II. But recent developments in social and religious history cannot support any longer the teleological discourse underpinning the whole book, that treats religions as isolated cultural units with such neat demarcations as incipience date and historical patriarchal lineage. Would it not be more rewarding to contest the current fabrication of a catechetical Daoism that espouses the Western idea of “world religion” instead of contributing to it?……From this viewpoint, Celestial Masters stands in sharp contrast to recent, more sophisticated books on historical religious processes during the early imperia... (查看原文)
Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series(共83册)，
这套丛书还有
《Cherishing Antiquity》《Strange Eventful Histories》《Songs of Contentment and Transgression》《An Introduction to Sung Poetry》《Building for Oil》
等
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Reconstructing Taoism’s Transformation in China By IAN JOHNSON AUG. 8, 2016 Terry F. Kleeman is a leading scholar of the early texts and history of China’s only indigenous religion, Taoism. A professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado,...
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0 有用 老吴 2016-09-26 09:48:52
虽然材料过于零散，但作者的分寸感极强；感觉天师道成为了早期基督教在东方失散多年的兄弟。
2 有用 豆豆不怕绊 2020-07-04 02:47:49
第一部分从外部追溯了从东汉末年到南北朝时期天师道随着社会动荡、政权更迭的发展变迁；第二部分从内部通过对道教科仪的细致翻译阅读，勾画出天师道作为一个宗教自治系统的基本组织结构、戒律、以及涉及道民衣食住行的方方面面。论述全部基于对文本的细致阅读，一段介绍一段翻译一段总结，文本是中英对照的，但是并没有细致的注解。总的来说应该是一本介绍性的入门教材，可以在需要的时候翻找查阅，全文阅读的话时常会走神。