Unruly gods. Divinity and society in China

by Meir Shahar, eds Robert P. Weller

$20 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1996 . First edition, 8vo, pp. vii, 3 ; 290, 4 ; a few text illustrations; full brown cloth, gilt title on spine; fine in fine dust jacket. What this book wonderfully reveals is the wild, untrammeled variety of Chinese religious myths and symbols, uncontrolled by either church or state. Religion is a field for the projection of human imagination according to the needs, hopes and fears of its participants. In the

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