It has long been noted that religious practitioners in China specialized in varied forms of healing. However, only a handful of book-length studies give exclusive, extended attention to this aspect of Chinese therapeutic culture (Maspero 1981; Gai 2001; Strickmann 2002; Sakade 2007),1 making Lin Fushi's recent collection of essays a welcome addition. Developing from his previous work on Han Dynasty and Six Dynasties shamans (Lin 1994, 2004), the collection provides a systematic overview of the medical activities of religious figures and sects in the late Han Dynasty and Six Dynasties.2 Covering a broad variety of indigenous religious practitioners and sects, the essays are both insightful and entertaining, filled with anecdotal narratives from hagiographic, historical, and zhiguai 志怪 (tales of the strange) literature. The contribution is the application of the medical gaze to religion;...
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1 March 2012
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March 01 2012
Book Review: Zhongguo zhonggu shiqi de zongjiao yu yiliao
FUSHI, LIN 林富士,
Zhongguo zhonggu shiqi de zongjiao yu yiliao 中國中古時期的醫療與宗教 [Medicine and Religion in Medieval China]
Taipei
: Lianjing
, 2008
. xi +726
pp. NT $780.00
Michael Stanley-Baker
Michael Stanley-Baker
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East Asian Science, Technology and Society (2012) 6 (1): 137–141.
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May 20 2011
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May 20 2011
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Michael Stanley-Baker; Book Review: Zhongguo zhonggu shiqi de zongjiao yu yiliao. East Asian Science, Technology and Society 1 March 2012; 6 (1): 137–141. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/18752160-1507604
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