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SUMMARY:Guest Lecture | Barbara Hendrischke: "Prohibition of Infanticide i
 n the Scripture on Great Peace"
DTSTART:20131212T170000Z
DTEND:20131212T190000Z
DTSTAMP:20260422T033936Z
UID:en-20131212-guest-lecture-hendrischke-781@ceres.rub.de
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DESCRIPTION:Poster\nThe Scripture on Great Peace (Taiping jing 太平經) 
 goes back to the second century C.E. and has been transmitted in the Daois
 t canon of texts. The Scripture documents ideas on social and cultural cha
 nge that were propagated in popular regional movements and local communiti
 es at a time when the centralised Han dynasty state began to fall apart. T
 he authors of the text saw the widespread practice of infanticide as a maj
 or obstacle for the arrival of the era of “great peace” that they pred
 icted. Therefore\, arguments against the practice provide a good introduct
 ion to the world view and argumentative methods of the authors of the Scri
 pture. The authors start with strong religious convictions on the value of
  life and the need to obey the laws of heaven. However\, their approach is
  integrative and pragmatic. While they propose that for religious and mora
 l reasons parents must be prepared to raise all children\, they acknowledg
 e that parents cannot be expected to do so unless they derive some practic
 al benefit from raising their daughters. The talk will outline this argume
 nt in some detail. It will be concluded that despite their novelty the aut
 hors’ suggestions were well geared to late Han dynasty social and econom
 ic reality and were in part accepted into the ritual of early Daoist congr
 egations.
LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20131212-guest-lecture-hendrischke/
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