Ritual and Religion in Chinese History and Anthropology

Monday, September 28, 2020 - 2:10 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Online


Fall 2020 CI-UNH Distinguished Lecture Series Distinguished Lecture Series 

This talk will explore ritual practices in Chinese history and anthropology, as well as indigenous ritual theories that arose concerning these practices.  It will argue that these practices and theories open up a number of interesting comparative issues concerning religion, belief, and, of course, the ritual itself.


Presenter:  Professor Michael Puett is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology at Harvard University. His interests are focused on the inter-relations between history, anthropology, religion, and philosophy, with the hope of bringing the study of China into larger historical and comparative frameworks. He is the author of The Ambivalence of Creation: Debates Concerning Innovation and Artifice in Early China and To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China, as well as the co-author, with Adam Seligman, Robert Weller, and Bennett Simon, of Ritual and its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity.
 

Zoom link: https://unh.zoom.us/j/7520710064

This event will be recorded.

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