Offers a new perspective on the relationship between religion and the creation of the first Chinese empires.
Heaven Is Empty offers a new comparative perspective on the role of the sacred in the formation of China’s early empires (221 BCE–9 CE) and shows how the unification of the Central States was possible without a unitary and universalistic conception of religion. The cohesive function of the ancient Mediterranean cult of the divinized ruler was crucial for the legitimization of Rome’s empire across geographical and social boundaries. Eventually reelaborated in Christian terms, it came to embody the timelessness and universality of Western conceptions of legitimate authority, while representing an analytical template for studying other ancient empires. Filippo Marsili challenges such approaches in his examination of the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han (141–87 BCE). Wu purposely drew from regional traditions and tried to gain the support of local communities through his patronage of local cults. He was interested in rituals that envisioned the monarch as a military leader, who directly controlled the land and its resources, as a means for legitimizing radical administrative and economic centralization. In reconstructing this imperial model, Marsilire interprets fragmentary official accounts in light of material evidence and noncanonical and recently excavated texts. In bringing to life the courts, battlefields, markets, shrines, and pleasure quarters of early imperial China, Heaven Is Empty provides a postmodern and postcolonial reassessment of “religion” before the arrival of Buddhism and challenges the application of Greco-Roman and Abrahamic systemic, identitary, and exclusionary notions of the “sacred” to the analysis of pre-Christian and non-Western realities.
Filippo Marsili is Associate Professor of History at Saint Louis University.
Debates on whether the origins of China were quintessentially "secular" or "religious" inevitably appropriate traditionally Euro-American philosophical preoccupations while implicitly subsuming the universality of Abrahamic models. -- true enough. 只是说不...
评分Debates on whether the origins of China were quintessentially "secular" or "religious" inevitably appropriate traditionally Euro-American philosophical preoccupations while implicitly subsuming the universality of Abrahamic models. -- true enough. 只是说不...
评分Debates on whether the origins of China were quintessentially "secular" or "religious" inevitably appropriate traditionally Euro-American philosophical preoccupations while implicitly subsuming the universality of Abrahamic models. -- true enough. 只是说不...
评分Debates on whether the origins of China were quintessentially "secular" or "religious" inevitably appropriate traditionally Euro-American philosophical preoccupations while implicitly subsuming the universality of Abrahamic models. -- true enough. 只是说不...
评分Debates on whether the origins of China were quintessentially "secular" or "religious" inevitably appropriate traditionally Euro-American philosophical preoccupations while implicitly subsuming the universality of Abrahamic models. -- true enough. 只是说不...
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评分这家伙,我刚翻完手边那本《静谧的深渊》,真是一部让人心神俱震的作品。作者的叙事手法简直像是一位技艺高超的雕塑家,寥寥数笔就能勾勒出角色的复杂内心世界,那种在时代洪流中挣扎求存的无力感,透过字里行间渗透出来,让人读得心里发堵。特别是对主角童年阴影的处理,没有大肆渲染,只是通过一些日常琐碎的场景和不经意的眼神交汇,就将那种挥之不去的阴霾刻画得入木三分。我特别欣赏作者对环境描写的细腻,那座常年笼罩在雾气中的小镇,仿佛成了一个活生生的角色,它的湿冷、它的沉寂,都与人物的情感变化形成了绝妙的呼应。读到后半段,那种压抑感达到了顶点,我甚至需要放下书本,到窗边深吸几口气才能继续。结局的处理也十分高明,没有给出明确的答案,而是留下了足够的空间供读者自行揣摩和消化,这种开放式的收尾,让这本书的余韵持续了很久,每次闭上眼睛,那些画面和感受又会浮现出来,真的,读完后劲十足。
评分我得说,《黄昏下的吟游诗人》是一本温柔得让人心疼的书。作者的文笔如同涓涓细流,细腻、婉转,充满了对逝去美好时光的怀恋。故事的主线很简单,讲述了一位老音乐家回顾自己一生中的几段关键的爱恋和创作历程,但正是这种简单,让情感得以充分地沉淀和升华。书中对音乐和旋律的描写,简直是神来之笔,即便只是文字,我似乎都能“听”到那些悠扬的乐声和带着岁月痕迹的颤音。特别是关于“错过的缘分”那几章,处理得极其克制和优雅,没有歇斯底里的控诉,只有一种带着释然的淡淡忧伤,这种成熟的情感表达,是许多年轻作家难以企及的。它让人想起那些被时间冲淡的往事,那些曾经以为会永远持续下去的瞬间。读完这本书,感觉心灵被温柔地清洗了一遍,很适合在一个下雨的午后,泡一杯热茶,慢慢品味,它带来的不是震撼,而是长久的慰藉。
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