The Interweaving of Rituals: Funerals in the Cultural Exchange Between China and EuropeThe death of the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci in China in 1610 was the occasion for demonstrations of European rituals appropriate for a Catholic priest and also of Chinese rituals appropriate to the country hosting the Jesuit community. Rather than burying Ricci immediately in a plain coffin near the church, according to their European practice, the Jesuits followed Chinese custom and kept Ricci's body for nearly a year in an air-tight Chinese-style coffin and asked the emperor for burial ground outside the city walls. Moreover, at Ricci's funeral itself, on their own initiative the Chinese performed their funerary rituals, thus starting a long and complex cultural dialogue in which they took the lead during the next century. |
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Contents
Introduction | 3 |
1 Chinese and European Funerals | 10 |
2 Missionaries Knowledge of Chinese Funerals | 37 |
3 The Gradual Embedding of Christian Funeral Rituals in China | 80 |
4 Funerals as Public Manifestation | 117 |
5 Funerals as Community Practice | 139 |
6 Christian versus Superstitious Rituals | 163 |
7 Imperial Sponsorship of Jesuit Funerals | 183 |
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| Title | The Interweaving of Rituals: Funerals in the Cultural Exchange Between China and Europe A China Program Book |
| Author | N Standaert |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Washington Press, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0295988231, 9780295988238 |
| Length | 328 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Asia / China Religion / Comparative Religion Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social Social Science / Customs & Traditions Social Science / Death & Dying |
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