Animals and Plants in Chinese Religions and Science

Huaiyu Chen

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Huaiyu Chen, Arizona State University

Publisher:: Anthem Press
Online publication date:: November 2023
Print publication year:: 2023
Online ISBN:: 9781839985027

Subjects:: Buddhism and Eastern Religions, Religion, Religion: General Interest

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This book is a unique transdisciplinary study on animals and plants in medieval Chinese religions and science, especially in such a critical era of environmental crisis today. In recent years, environment historians have written intensively on China, yet the study of animals and plants in medieval China was less developed, not much about the role of religions, more precisely. This book aims to bridge the gaps between religious studies and environmental studies, between the history of science and religious studies, and between animal studies and plant studies. It also deals with folklores and other literary sources for examining the changing images of animals in the psychological and imaginative experience, which are often overlooked in the conventional scholarship. This book addresses big issues such as how religious agents responded to the challenges about animals and plants as material culture in the mundane world, and how the religious writers developed their different discourse about animals and plants from the state ideology, and how the spiritual world and natural world mutually enriched each other in the medieval world of China.

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iv

Acknowledgments
pp v-vi

List of Illustrations
pp vii-viii

Introduction
pp 1-4

1 - Plant Science and Technology in Medieval China
pp 5-34

2 - Ordering Plants in the Buddhist World: A Medieval Botanical Taxonomy
pp 35-56

3 - Animal Divination and Climate: An Environmental Perspective on the Cult of the Pig
pp 57-76

4 - Zoomancy in Medieval China
pp 77-96

5 - The Changing Images of Zodiac Animals in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Literature
pp 97-120

6 - The Were-Tigers in Medieval China and Its Asian Context
pp 121-144

7 - The Animal Turn in Asian Studies and the Asian Turn in the Animal Studies
pp 145-168

Bibliography
pp 169-188

Index
pp 189-205

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