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Barend J. Ter Haar

Guan Yu

The Religious Afterlife of a Failed Hero

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Guan Yu was a minor general in the early third century CE, who supported one of numerous claimants to the throne. He was captured and executed by enemy forces in 219. He eventually became one the most popular and influential deities of imperial China under the name Lord Guan or Emperor Guan, of the same importance as the Buddhist bodhisattva Guanyin. This is a study of his cult, but also of the tremendous power of oral culture in a world where writing becameincreasingly important.In this study, we follow the rise of the deity through his earliest stage as a hungry ghost, his subsequent adoption by a prominent Buddhist monastery during the Tan… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-19-252543-7
  • EAN: 9780192525437
  • Produktnummer: 24344119
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 320 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 2'469 KB
  • Abbildungen: 19 black and white images, maps, and tables

Über den Autor


Barend J. ter Haar studied in Leiden, Shenyang, and Fukuoka. He obtained his doctoral degree in 1990 in Leiden, and worked in Leiden and Heidelberg before coming to Oxford in 2013. Ter Haar has published extensively on new religious groups, lay Buddhism, Triad ritual and mythology, the spread of rumours, religious culture and violence, local religious culture, and ethnicity. He is currently completing a book dealing with the social history of witchcraft fears andpersecution in traditional China.

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