this Book Explores The Daoist Encounter With Modernity Through The Activities Of Chen Yingning (1880–1969), A Famous Lay Daoist Master, And His Group In Early Twentieth-century Shanghai. In Contrast To The Usual Narrative Of Daoist Decay, With Its Focus On Monastic Decline, Clerical Corruption, And Popular Superstitions, This Study Tells A Story Of Daoist Resilience, Reinvigoration, And Revival. between The 1920s And 1940s, Chen Led A Group Of Urban Lay Followers In Pursuing Daoist Self-cultivation Techniques As A Way Of Ensuring Health, Promoting Spirituality, Forging Cultural Self-identity, Building Community, And Strengthening The Nation. In Their Efforts To Renew And Reform Daoism, Chen And His Followers Became Deeply Engaged With Nationalism, Science, The Religious Reform Movements, The New Urban Print Culture, And Other Forces Of Modernity. since Chen And His Fellow Practitioners Conceived Of The Daoist Self-cultivation Tradition As A Public Resource, They Also Transformed It From An “esoteric” Pursuit Into A Public Practice, Offering A Modernizing Society A Means Of Managing The Body And The Mind And Of Forging A New Cultural, Spiritual, And Religious Identity.

lgrsnf/Daoist Modern - Innovation, Lay Practice and the Community of Inner Alchemy in Republican Shanghai.pdf

Liu, Xun

Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

1, Cambridge (Massachusetts); London, 2009

Brill Academic Publishers, [N.p.], 2020

United States, United States of America

Illustrated, PS, 2009

lg2851707

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Late Qing and early republican Daoism
A journey from Anqing to Shanghai
Innovating immortals' body : nationalism, antiquity, and science
Practice makes perfect : inner alchemic techniques and regimens
The inner alchemy community
The print culture and revival of inner alchemy.

2020-11-26