Divine justice
Subtitle: religion and the development of Chinese legal culture
By: Paul R. Katz.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780415443456; 9780203883686
Subjects: Customary law -- China -- History; Religion and law -- China -- History; Justice, Administration of -- China -- History; Rites and ceremonies -- China -- History; China -- Religious life and customs -- History
Table of contents: title: The development of the judicial underworld : a comparative perspective background; title: The judicial continuum; title: Oaths and chicken-beheading rituals; title: Indictment rituals; title: Trials of the insane and dressing as a criminal; title: Judicial rituals in Asian colonial and immigrant history; title: Judicial rituals in modern Taiwan; title: Case study: the Dizang Abbey.