An Introduction to Feng Shui (Hardcover)

Ole Bruun

ISBN 10: 052186352X / ISBN 13: 9780521863520

Edité par Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008

A propos de cet article

Hardcover. Feng Shui has been known in the West for the last 150 years but has mostly been regarded as a primitive superstition. During the modern period successive regimes in China have suppressed its practice. However, in the last few decades Feng Shui has become a global spiritual movement with professional associations, thousands of titles published on the subject, countless websites devoted to it and millions of users. In this book Ole Bruun explains Feng Shui's Chinese origins and meanings as well as its more recent Western interpretations and global appeal. Unlike the abundance of popular manuals, his Introduction treats Chinese Feng Shui as an academic subject, bridging religion, history and sociology. Individual chapters explain the Chinese religious-philosophical background, Chinese uses in rural and urban areas, the history of Feng Shui's reinterpretation in the West, and environmental perspectives and other issues. In the last few decades Feng Shui has become a global spiritual movement. Ole Bruun explains its Chinese origins and meanings as well as its more recent Western interpretations. Unlike the abundance of popular manuals, his Introduction treats Chinese Feng Shui as an academic subject, bridging religion, history and sociology. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: An Introduction to Feng Shui (Hardcover)
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 052186352X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780521863520
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de l'article: new

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Synopsis

This book examines the origins and practices of Chinese Feng Shui as well as its recent Western interpretations.

À propos de l?auteur

Ole Bruun is Associate Professor at the Institute for Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, Denmark. He is author of Fengshui in China: Geomantic Divination Between State Orthodoxy and Popular Religion (2003) and editor with Michael Jacobsen of Human Rights and Asian Values: Contested Identities and Cultural Representations in Asia (2000).