Meir Shahar
Autor von The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts
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Meir Shahar is associate professor in the Department of East Asian Studies, Tel Aviv University.
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Each chapter includes excellent notes, which should be read together with the text, plus an extensive bibliography at the end that enables further research. A glossary at the back of the volume provides the Chinese characters--a detail often neglected but much appreciated. The Index is also well done and includes conceptual topics as well as names and locales.
Perhaps not for the lay or casual reader, but that was not its intention. It was written by scholars, for scholars, academics and those with a serious interest in Chinese popular religion. All in all, an excellent little volume (well, perhaps at nearly 300 pages not so little) that I will assuredly be returning to often.… (mehr)