Knotting the Banner: Ritual and Relationship in Daoist Practice - David J. Mozina

David J. Mozina, Author & Scholar
Recorded on November 16, 2021
Weaving together ethnography, textual analysis, photography, and film, this lecture invites you into the flourishing yet fraught religious world of Daoist ritual masters amid the social and economic pressures of rural life in the post-Mao era. It reveals how these masters' livelihoods, which hinge on their liturgical ability to protect and heal bodies and spaces from demonic affliction, are a function of their personal relationships with fierce and fickle martial deities, and how those ritual claims are rooted in the great Daoist liturgical movements of the Song and Yuan dynasties (960-1368). This lecture will appeal to specialists of East Asian religions and to religionists and anthropologists interested in ritual.
This event is co-sponsored with the Seminary Co-op Bookstores.

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谢谢莫达夫的精彩演讲。

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Many thanks to Prof. Paul Copp for hosting, to Connie Yip and Myra Su of CEAS for organizing, and to the Seminary Co-op Bookstore for co-sponsoring my talk at the University of Chicago!