Changing Gods in Medieval China, 1127-12
โ Valerie Hansen
๐ Library
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1990
๐ Princeton University Press
๐ English
In her study of medieval Chinese lay practices and beliefs, Valerie Hansen argues that social and economic developments underlay religious changes in the Southern Song. Unfamiliar with the contents of Buddhist and Daoist texts, the common people hired the practitioner or prayed to the god they thoug