To become a god : cosmology, sacrifice, and self-divinization in early China /
Puett, Michael J., 1964-
To become a god : cosmology, sacrifice, and self-divinization in early China / Michael J. Puett. - Cambridge, Mass. : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2002. - xv, 358 p. ; 24 cm. - Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 57 . - Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 57. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-343) and index.
Anthropomorphizing the spirits: sacrifice and divination in Late Bronze Age China -- Gaining the powers of spirits: the emergence of self-divinization claims in the fourth century B.C. / Accepting the order of heaven: humanity and divinity in Zhuangzi and Mencius -- Descendants of the one: correlative cosmology in the late warring states -- The ascension of the spirit: liberation, spirit journeys, and celestial wanderings -- A theocracy of spirits: theism, theomorphism, and alchemy in the Qin and early Han empires -- Aligning and orienting the cosmos: anthropomorphic gods and theomorphic humans in the Huainanzi -- The sacrifices that order the world: divine kingship and human kingship in the western Han.
0674009592 (alk. paper) 9780674009592 (alk. paper)
2002017257
God--Proof, Cosmological.
Divination--China.
Dieu--Existence--Preuve cosmologique.
Divination--Chine.
Kosmologie
Divination
Geschichte Anfänge-200.
Gottesbeweis
China
BT100 / .P9 2002
299/.51
To become a god : cosmology, sacrifice, and self-divinization in early China / Michael J. Puett. - Cambridge, Mass. : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2002. - xv, 358 p. ; 24 cm. - Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 57 . - Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 57. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-343) and index.
Anthropomorphizing the spirits: sacrifice and divination in Late Bronze Age China -- Gaining the powers of spirits: the emergence of self-divinization claims in the fourth century B.C. / Accepting the order of heaven: humanity and divinity in Zhuangzi and Mencius -- Descendants of the one: correlative cosmology in the late warring states -- The ascension of the spirit: liberation, spirit journeys, and celestial wanderings -- A theocracy of spirits: theism, theomorphism, and alchemy in the Qin and early Han empires -- Aligning and orienting the cosmos: anthropomorphic gods and theomorphic humans in the Huainanzi -- The sacrifices that order the world: divine kingship and human kingship in the western Han.
0674009592 (alk. paper) 9780674009592 (alk. paper)
2002017257
God--Proof, Cosmological.
Divination--China.
Dieu--Existence--Preuve cosmologique.
Divination--Chine.
Kosmologie
Divination
Geschichte Anfänge-200.
Gottesbeweis
China
BT100 / .P9 2002
299/.51