Robert Hymes (80 results)

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Sticker with UPC on back. Mild scuffing on cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Green titles on illustrated light brown trade paper covers, 364 pages includig notes, bibliography, glossary and index plus 17 pages of introductory material.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Hardcover book in Near Fine/Near Fine condition. Pages are crisp and beyond a previous owner's name written on the title page they are completely clean bearing no notes or highlighting. Binding is tight and firm. NOT a former library copy. We ship promptly from the United States and in a box.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. Dust jacket is missing; cloth boards are clean, gilt titling bright, corners sharp; binding is tight; pages are lightly age-toned but clean with no marks from previous owners.; 6.25 X 1 X 9.25 inches; 364 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 364 pgs. Bibliography. b/w illustrs. Gently bumped at top corner, otherwise a fine copy. No names or marks in text.

Condition: New.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: New. Using a combination of newly mined Sung sources and modern ethnography, Robert Hymes addresses questions that have perplexed China scholars in recent years. Were Chinese gods celestial officials, governing the fate and fortunes of their worshippers as China's own bureaucracy governed their worldly lives? Or were they personal beings, patrons or parents or guardians, offering protection in exchange for reverence and sacrifice? To answer these questions Hymes examines the professional exorcist sects and rising Immortals' cults of the Sung dynasty alongside ritual practices in contemporary Taiwan and Hong Kong, as well as miracle tales, liturgies, spirit law codes, devotional poetry, and sacred geographies of the eleventh through thirteenth centuries. Drawing upon historical and anthropological evidence, he argues that two contrasting and contending models informed how the Chinese saw and see their gods. These models were used separately or in creative combination to articulate widely varying religious standpoints and competing ideas of both secular and divine power.Whether gods were bureaucrats or personal protectors depended, and still depends, says Hymes, on who worships them, in what setting, and for what purposes.…

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Way and Byway: Taoism, Local Religion, and Models of Divinity in Sung and Modern China. Book.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: New. 2020. Paperback. . . . . .

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New. 2020. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: New.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 444 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Super octavo, purple cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 437pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, sl soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light tanning & fading to spine, light chafing).

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Paperback. Condition: New. Using a combination of newly mined Sung sources and modern ethnography, Robert Hymes addresses questions that have perplexed China scholars in recent years. Were Chinese gods celestial officials, governing the fate and fortunes of their worshippers as China's own bureaucracy governed their worldly lives? Or were they personal beings, patrons or parents or guardians, offering protection in exchange for reverence and sacrifice? To answer these questions Hymes examines the professional exorcist sects and rising Immortals' cults of the Sung dynasty alongside ritual practices in contemporary Taiwan and Hong Kong, as well as miracle tales, liturgies, spirit law codes, devotional poetry, and sacred geographies of the eleventh through thirteenth centuries. Drawing upon historical and anthropological evidence, he argues that two contrasting and contending models informed how the Chinese saw and see their gods. These models were used separately or in creative combination to articulate widely varying religious standpoints and competing ideas of both secular and divine power.Whether gods were bureaucrats or personal protectors depended, and still depends, says Hymes, on who worships them, in what setting, and for what purposes.…

1st ed. - 437 pages. - With works cited, index. - Softcover, good+.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 452 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.