Product Description: Considering the length of the Taoist history and its many ups and downs, the vicissitudes of administrative and social changes and challenges, the theme of affiliation and transmission in Daoism has a superb importance. What were the conditions of transmission and affiliation? What did it mean to become a disciple and member of an affiliation, taking into account changing times and locations? Such themes and related questions were discussed on the International Symposium on Affiliation and Transmission in Daoism, Berlin in June 2011 and are now presented as scientific articles in this volume...read more

Product Description: Exorcism in Daoism" edited by Florian C. Reiter presents the contributions to an international symposium held in Berlin on 8th-10th of December 2009. Exorcism always was and still is an omnipresent phenomenon in China which shaped the liturgical and scriptural Daoism in history...read more

Product Description: In 2007, the Chinese Department of Humboldt University (Berlin) staged a symposium on the foundations of Daoist ritual. The results in English and Chinese (with summaries) are presented in this book. Daoist ritual is embedded in Chinese culture, and so considerations from the Confucian point of view made the start...read more