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B.J. ter Haar The White Lotus Society and the White Lotus teachings
reality and label
Non-fictie
Engels | 409 pagina's | 1990
Gedrukt boek
B.J. ter Haar Telling stories
witchcraft and scapegoating in Chinese history
This book analyzes the role of oral stories leading to witch-hunts in imperial China. It's interest is in those stories that led to the stigmatisation of certain types of beings, and often to consequent outbreaks of collective fear over larger regions. In the stories demonic creatures, sometimes human beings, were identified as scapegoats and dealt with by means of violence. Scapegoats could be Westerners, and other foreigners, wicked women, and evil emperors, recruiting young girls for the imperial...
Non-fictie
Engels | 378 pagina's | Brill, Leiden [etc.] | 2006
Gedrukt boek
B.J. ter Haar Ritual and mythology of the Chinese triads
creating an identity
Non-fictie
Engels | 517 pagina's | Brill, Leiden [etc.] | 2000
Gedrukt boek
B.J. ter Haar The White Lotus teachings in Chinese religious history
Non-fictie
Engels | 343 pagina's | Brill, Leiden [etc.] | 1992
Gedrukt boek