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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 third century CE, but over time, he became known as one the most popular and influential deities of imperial China under the name Lord Guan or Emperor Guan. The book explores the cult of Guan Yu by examining the tremendous power of oral culture in creating the mythology of a deity.

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-880364-5
  • EAN: 9780198803645
  • Produktnummer: 22787257
  • Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 320 S.
  • Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.3 cm 635 g
  • Gewicht: 635

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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