Early Chinese Religion, Part Two: The Period of Division (220-589 AD) (2 vols)
Biographical note
John Lagerwey, PhD (1975) in Chinese literature, Harvard University, is Professor of Daoism at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris) and of Chinese studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has just published China: a Religious State.
Lü Pengzhi, PhD (1999) Sichuan University, is Associate Professor of Daoism at Sichuan University and visiting scholar at the École française d'Extrême-Orient. His primary publications concern early Heavenly Master Daoism and the history of Daoist ritual.
Lü Pengzhi, PhD (1999) Sichuan University, is Associate Professor of Daoism at Sichuan University and visiting scholar at the École française d'Extrême-Orient. His primary publications concern early Heavenly Master Daoism and the history of Daoist ritual.
Readership
All those interested in the religious and cultural history of early medieval China and in the role of religion in ordering state and society in the Chinese empire.
Reviews
Early Chinese Religion is an extraordinary achievement. At once a summa of what we know about early Chinese religion, a critique of previous views, and an occasionally radical reimagining of early Chinese religion, it can function both as a reference work and as an introduction to the state of the art in the study of early Chinese religion. For the student of Chinese religion, of comparative religion, and of folk religion, it is a work of fundamental importance.
David Elton Gay, Indiana University, Journal of Folklore Research posted April 20, 2011, in the online e-review service.
"The field of early Chinese religions has often been dealt with but never in such an abundance and by so many well-known experts as in the two huge volumes of the well-known.(...)without doubt the so far the best treatment of Chinese religion, which is not so easy to understand or as contingent as often thought."
Claudia von Collani, Bibliographia Missionaria, LXXXIV, 2010
David Elton Gay, Indiana University, Journal of Folklore Research posted April 20, 2011, in the online e-review service.
"The field of early Chinese religions has often been dealt with but never in such an abundance and by so many well-known experts as in the two huge volumes of the well-known
Claudia von Collani, Bibliographia Missionaria, LXXXIV, 2010
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