#chinesereligion
The Jiao Festivals #太平清醮 (purification rite) this year received extra attention for its use of bamboo scaffolding and, as we argued in this JAS special forum, popular religions have provided a sense of (political) identity in #hongkong:

#religion #chinesereligion #daoism #ritual #jiaofestival
Diffusion, Polyphony, and Diversity: An Introduction to Religion, Politics, and Identity in Hong Kong since 2014
Abstract. This forum explicates Hong Kong's complex religious and ritual landscape and the ways in which it influences social movements and identity making, in response to large forces of religion and...
read.dukeupress.edu
December 19, 2025 at 3:28 AM
This mask with #jade eyes was discovered, along with other female statues, at a site called the Goddess Temple. Some scholars think goddess worship was once central to #chinesereligion.
August 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Vincent Goossaert, 2022. Making the Gods Speak. The Ritual Production of Revelation in Chinese Religious History.
Harvard University Press.
Features a lot of analysis of spirit-writing.
#chinesereligion #ritual #harvardUP #divine #history #china #research
July 26, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Tomb brick with a motif of a chariot arriving at a gate from Eastern #HanChina (25-220). An allegory of afterlife? #chinesehistory #chinesereligion #china #history #archeology
July 12, 2025 at 10:41 AM
#DOTD: Ren Jiyu 任繼愈 (1916–2009), one of the most influential academic philosophers and historians of #ChinesePhilosophy and #ChineseReligion in #ModernChina.
#Daoism #道教 #Buddhism #佛教 #哲學 #宗教
July 11, 2025 at 5:57 AM
#DOTD: Liang Shuming 梁漱溟 (1893–1988), modern #Confucian philosopher who was strongly influenced by #Indian #Buddhist #philosophy. #ModernChina #ChinesePhilosophy #ChineseReligion
June 23, 2025 at 6:24 AM
The final makeup of the group demonstrates a breadth of representation that is unlikely to be coincidental - old, young; poor, rich; military, civil; male, female. This 'DEI' was pointed out even during the late Ming by 王世贞 (wáng shì zhēn), a poet and writer.

#culture #Chinesereligion #history
March 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
📰 Ideals of Human Perfection and Power in Contemporary Burmese Buddhism (A free, 36-page article from 2010)

Tags: #ChineseReligion #BurmeseBuddhism #Buddhism
On Saints and Wizards: Ideals of Human Perfection and Power in Contemporary Burmese Buddhism
> Known in Burmese as the *weikza-lam* or ‘Path of Esoteric Knowledge,’ this tradition has as its goal not the termination of saṃsāric life as an arahant, but rather its indefi nite prolongation through the attainment of virtual immortality
buddhistuniversity.net
February 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
#BOTD: Xu Dishan 許地山 (1893-1941), #Taiwanese scholar and folklorist of Indian and #ChineseReligion, #literature, and #Sanskrit, and alumnus of University of Oxford. #ModernChina #ChineseReligion #SinoIndianRelations
February 3, 2025 at 7:12 AM
The journal Religions has published "Visualizations of Mountain-Body Fusions in Medieval Chinese Philosophy, Art, and Religion," an article I've written that is available open access. #visualization #chinesereligion #Buddhism #Daoism mdpi.com/2077-1444/15...
Visualizations of Mountain–Body Fusions in Medieval Chinese Philosophy, Art, and Religion
This paper examines how Chinese people affiliated with different religions and ideologies of the Song period (960–1279 CE) used artistic, literary and visual representations to merge mountains and the...
mdpi.com
December 22, 2024 at 5:23 PM
#DOTD: Liang Shuming 梁漱溟 (1893–1988), modern #Confucian philosopher who was strongly influenced by #Indian #Buddhist #philosophy. #ModernChina #ChinesePhilosophy #ChineseReligion
June 23, 2024 at 10:12 AM
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February 3, 2024 at 7:00 AM
#BOTD: Xu Dishan 許地山 (1893-1941), #Taiwanese scholar and folklorist of Indian and #ChineseReligion, #literature, and #Sanskrit, and alumnus of @UniofOxford. #ModernChina #ChineseReligion #SinoIndianRelations
February 3, 2024 at 6:57 AM