The Heaven and Earth Society as Popular Religion  

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Ownby, David

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Journal of Asian Studies vol. 54 no. 04 (Nov. 1995), page 1023-1046.
Topik: Popular Culture; Secret Societies; Power; Marginality

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In contrast to much of the literature on the topic of Chinese secret societies, DAVID OWNBY is interested in highlighting their religious character. Following a review of the historiography of Chinese secret societies, the author turns his attention to the Heaven and Earth Society (Tiandhihui) of early nineteenth-century western Fujian and eastern Jiangxi, which he shows functioned not as a protonationalist organization or as a rebellious group, but as an organization grounded in popular religion and local culture. Its rituals, deities, and vocabulary overlapped with those of lay Buddhism and local religious practices. Tiandihui members, moreover, he finds, were drawn by the promise of power that the Society offered through its religious elements. His consideration of the interplay of religion and power leads him to challenge Durkheimian approaches that emphasize the solidarity functions of religion.

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