Divine justice: religion and the development of Chinese legal culture
The development of the judicial underworld : a comparative perspective background -- The judicial continuum -- Oaths and chicken-beheading rituals -- Indictment rituals -- Trials of the insane and dressing as a criminal -- Judicial rituals in Asian colonial and immigrant history -- Judicial rituals...
| Σύνοψη: | The development of the judicial underworld : a comparative perspective background -- The judicial continuum -- Oaths and chicken-beheading rituals -- Indictment rituals -- Trials of the insane and dressing as a criminal -- Judicial rituals in Asian colonial and immigrant history -- Judicial rituals in modern Taiwan -- Case study: the Dizang Abbey |
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| Περιγραφή τεκμηρίου: | The development of the judicial underworld -- The judicial continuum -- Oaths and chicken-beheading rituals -- Indictment rituals -- Trials of the insane and dressing as a criminal -- Judicial rituals in Asian colonial and immigrant history -- Judicial rituals in modern Taiwan -- Case study Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-218) and index |
| Φυσική περιγραφή: | XIII, 224 S., Ill. |
| ISBN: | 0415574331 |