Huaiyu Chen

Animals and Plants in Chinese Religions and Science (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a unique transdisciplinary study on animals and plants in medieval Chinese religions and science, especially in such a critical era of environmental crisis today. In recent years, environment historians have written intensively on China, yet the study of animals and plants in medieval China was less developed, not much about the role of religions, more precisely. This book aims to bridge the gaps between religious studies and environmental studies, between the history of science and religious studies, and between animal studies and plant studies. It also deals with folklores and other literary sources for examining the changing images of animals in the psychological and imaginative experience, which are often overlooked in the conventional scholarship. This book addresses big issues such as how religious agents responded to the challenges about animals and plants as material culture in the mundane world, and how the religious writers developed their different discourse about animals and plants from the state ideology, and how the spiritual world and natural world mutually enriched each other in the medieval world of China.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781839985034
• Artikelnr.: 63388420

Autorenporträt

Huaiyu Chen is Associate Professor of School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of In the Land of Tigers and Snakes: Living with Animals in Medieval Chinese Religions (2023).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
List of Figures
List of Charts
Introduction
Plant Science and Technology in Medieval China
Ordering Plants in the Buddhist World: A Medieval Botanical Taxonomy
Animal Divination and Climate: An Environmental Perspective on the Cult of the Pig
Zoomancy in Medieval China
The Changing Images of Zodiac Animals in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Literature
The Were-Tigers in Medieval China and Its Asian Context
The Animal Turn in Asian Studies and the Asian Turn in the Animal Studies
 Bibliography
 Index