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Paperback Changing Gods in Medieval China, 1127-1276 Book

ISBN: 0691608636

ISBN13: 9780691608631

Changing Gods in Medieval China, 1127-1276

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In her study of medieval Chinese lay practices and beliefs, Valerie Hansen argues that social and economic developments underlay religious changes in the Southern Song. Unfamiliar with the contents of Buddhist and Daoist texts, the common people hired the practitioner or prayed to the god they thought could cure the ill or bring rain. As the economy rapidly developed, the gods, like the people who worshiped them, diversified: their realm of influence...

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