学者简介

Date of birth: June 23, 1958 in the Netherlands Study of sinology from September 1976 - August 1984, at Leiden University (the Netherlands) Studies abroad: Mainland China (University of Liaoning in Shenyang, from August 1979 - July 1980), Japan (University for Foreign Languages in Osaka, from April - August 1982, University of Kyûshû from August 1982 - April 1984) Dissertation: January 10, 1990 (Leiden University, thesis advisors prof. S. Naquin of Princeton

Selected Bibliography

Books

Guan Yu: You fan ru shen de lishi yu xiangxiang 关羽：由凡入神的历史与想象 (trsl. by Wang Jian 王健、Yin Wei 尹薇、Yan Aiping 闫爱萍、Qu Xiaoyu 屈啸宇, corrected by Wang Jian 王健) (Beijing: Xinxing chubanshe 新星出版社, 2022

Religious Culture and Violence in Traditional China. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019)

To prevent disappointment: the real book is not much larger than this picture.

Tiandihui de yishi yu shenhua: chuangzao rentong 天地會的儀式與神話： 創造認同 (Li Gongzhong 李恭忠 trsl.)(Shangwu yinshuguan, Beijing, 2018)

Guan Yu: The Religious Afterlife of a Failed Hero (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017)

Zhongguo lishishangde Bailianjiao 中國歷史上的白蓮教 (Liu Ping 劉平 and Wang Rui 王蕊 trsl.) (Beijing: Shangwu yinshuguan, 2017)

Jiang gushi: zhongguo lishishang de wushu yu tizui 講故事： 中國歷史上的巫術與替罪 (Xu Liheng 徐力恆,Huang Yuning 黃宇寧, Zhao Lingyun 赵凌云,Zhou Nulu 周努鲁, Huang Fei 黄菲, Li Tong 李瞳 trsl.)(Shanghai: Zhongxi shuju, 2016)

Practicing Scripture: A Lay Buddhist Movement in Late Imperial China (Honolulu: Hawaii University Press, 2014)

Het Hemels Mandaat: De geschiedenis van het Chinese keizerrijk (a revisionist Dutch language history of China until 1911; Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2009, tweede druk 2010, derde druk 2013, vierde en herziene druk 2018) .

Telling Stories: Witchcraft and Scapegoating in Chinese History (Leiden: Brill, 2006).

The Ritual and Mythology of the Chinese Triads: Creating an Identity   (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1998).

The White Lotus Teachings in Chinese Religious History (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1992; paperback edition: Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999) 

(NOTE: In this 1999 reprint, my name is also written Barend J. ter Harr. Please note that this is WRONG).

Degrees and employment

Study of sinology from September 1976 - August 1984, at Leiden University (the Netherlands)

Studies abroad: Mainland China (University of Liaoning in Shenyang, from August 1979 - July 1980), Japan (University for Foreign Languages in Osaka, from April - August 1982, University of Kyûshû from August 1982 - April 1984)

Dissertation: January 10, 1990 (Leiden University, thesis advisors prof. S. Naquin of Princeton University [then at the University of Pennsylvania] and prof. E. Zürcher of Leiden University, judicium cum laude)

Presently

Professor of Chinese at the University of Hamburg (from October 2018 onwards)

Visiting professor at Sichuan University (Chengdu) and Shanxi (Taiyuan)

coeditor Sinica Leidensia

Member of the editorial board: Oriens Extremus

Degrees and employment

Degrees and employment

"The Demonological Framework of the Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace," and "Religion and war in traditional China", Margo Kits eds., Cambridge Companion to Religion and War (submitted to the editor)

"The Demonological Framework of the Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace," and "Religion and war in traditional China", Margo Kits eds., Cambridge Companion to Religion and War (submitted to the editor)

"Harmful ancestors or friendly ghosts: looking at our early evidence on the Chinese notion of gui 鬼", Review article for Journal of Asian History 56 (2022) 269-306

"Divine Soldiers: the Boxers and their religious universe", Studies in Chinese Religions 8: 2 (2022), 259-288

"Buddhist monks and oral performance", in: Jonathan Silk and Stefano Zachetti eds., Chinese Buddhism and the Scholarship of Erik Zürcher (Leiden: Brill, 2022), 188-232.

"Notions of secrecy and the unknown/hidden in Chinese culture," in: Hugh B. Urban and Paul Christopher Johnson eds., The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Secrecy (Routledge: London, 2022), 163-173.

"Pure Land and netherworld: an essential combination", Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies, 4.2 (2021): 352–392.

"What Inscriptions do not tell about themselves: Chinese cases," Jörg B. Quenzer ed., Exploring Written Artefacts: Objects, Methods, and Concepts (De Gruyter: Berlin, 2021), 139-158.

"A word for violence: the Chinese term bao 暴", Journal of Religion and Violence, 8:3 (2020), 221-241 (appeared in 2021).

"Giving Believers Back Their Voice: Agency and Heresy in Late Imperial China", In Text and Context in the Modern History of Chinese Religions: Redemptive Societies and Their Sacred Texts, edited by Philip Clart and David Ownby (Brill: Leiden, 2020), 16-54

"The White Lotus Movement and the Use of Chan", Journal of Chan Buddhism 1 (2019) 17-54 (appeared in 2020)

"The Way of the Nine Palaces (jiugong dao 九宮道): a lay Buddhist movement", Studies in Chinese Religions, 5: 3/4 (2019), 415-432 (largely the same text appeared in translation as “Minjian fojiao yundong Jiugong dao 民間佛教運動九宮道”，in: Miaojiang 妙江, Chen Jinhua 陳金華 , Kuanguang 寬廣 and Ji Yun 紀贇 eds. Wutaishan xinyang duowenhua kuazongjiao de xingge yiji guojixing yingxiangli 五臺山信仰多文化，跨宗教的性格以及國際性影響力 [Taibei 臺北: Xinwenfeng Chuban Gongsi 新文豐出版公司, 2018.6], 193-212, with some minor adaptations to Chinese discourse as visible in the different title)

"Shamans, Mediums and Chinese Buddhism: a Brief Reconnaissance", Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies, 1.2 (2019), 202-230

"Oosterse lotus en Fries pompenblad: Boeddhisme in het veld", in: Tjalling Halbertsma, Alpita de Jong en Barend ter Haar, De Predikant en de Boeddha: Beschouwingen bij de heruitgave van Joost Halbertsma’s Het buddhisme en zijn stichter uit 1843 (Gorredijk: Uitgeverij Noordboek, 2019), 42-70.

"Een kleine revolutie: het Boeddhisme als een tekst", in: Tjalling Halbertsma, Alpita de Jong en Barend ter Haar, De Predikant en de Boeddha: Beschouwingen bij de heruitgave van Joost Halbertsma’s Het buddhisme en zijn stichter uit 1843 (Gorredijk: Uitgeverij Noordboek, 2019), 71-105.

"The rise of Northern Chinese regional temple cults: a case study of the worship of King Tang" Minsu quyi 民俗曲藝 205 (2019.9): 161–213

"Studying fears of witchcraft in traditional China: A close reading of three examples from Hong Mai’s The Record", in: Barbara Mittler, Joachim & Natascha Gentz and Catherina Vance Yeh, eds., China and the World--The World and China: A Transcultural Perspective (Ostasian Verlag: Gossenberg, 2019), 203-211. More important than my own contribution are the other articles, especially those relating to my late Heidelberg colleague Rudolf Wagner.

"Luo Qing", in Jonathan Silk and others eds., Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Volume 2 “Lives”(Brill: Leiden, 2019), 707-710.

"Rumours and prophecies: the religious background of the late Yuan rebellions", Studies in Chinese Religions 4: 4 (2018) 382-418

"Heterodox Sects in Premodern China" (Oxford Bibliographies in "Chinese Studies"). Ed. Tim Wright. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018).

"The Religious Core of Local Social Organization", in: Michael Szonyi ed., Blackwell Companion to Chinese History (Blackwell: Oxford, 2016), 304-314.

"State and Samgha in the Qing Period: A New Look at Old Figures", in: T. Jülch ed., The Middle Kingdom and the Dharma Wheel: Aspects of the Relationship Between the Buddhist Samgha and the State in Chinese History (Brill: Leiden, 2016) 379-408.

"From Field to Text in the Study of Chinese Religion", in: Kiri Paramore ed., Religion and Orientalism in Asian Studies (Bloomsbury: London, 2016), 85-105

(trsl. Shi Ye　施晔, "Zhongxue xichuan de dianxing gean: 19 shiji Rujiao (Confucianism) yici de faming 中学西传的典型个案：19世纪“儒教”(Confucianism)一词的发明", Shanghai shifan daxue xuebao yhexue shehui kexue ban《上海师范大学学报：哲学社会科学版》2016: 4）

"Witchcraft in Chinese History", in: Wolfgang Behringer, Sönke Lorenz and Dieter R. Bauer eds., Späte Hexenprozesse: Der Umgang der Aufklärung mit dem Irrationalen (Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 2016), 309-330 (please note that this article was largely written almost ten years earlier).

"China", in: Joseph Laycock ed., Spirit Possession around the World: Possession, Communion, and Demon Expulsion across Cultures (ABC Clio: Santa Barbara, Denver, 2015) 76-80 (very very short piece on shamans and mediums)

"Patriarch Luo as a Writer and Reader: Speculating about the Creative Process behind the Five Books in Six Volumes", Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies Vol.15 No.1 (2015) 21-44.

"The Sutra of the Five Lords: manuscript and oral tradition", Studies in Chinese Religions 1: 2 (2015) 172-197.

"Ouzhou hanxuejia yanzhongde zhongguo minjian zongjiao--yi Jiangnan Wuweijiao wei zhongxin" 歐洲漢學家眼中的中國民間宗教--以江南無爲教為中心 (Xu Maoming 徐茂明 trsl. and edited), Tang Lixing 唐力行 ed., Jiangnan shehui lishi pinglun 江南社會歷史評論 (Shangwu yinshuguan: Beijing, 2014) 336-354

"Between the Dutch Indies and philology, 1919-1974", in: Wilt L. Idema ed., Chinese Studies in the Netherlands: Past, Present and Future (Brill: Leiden, 2014) 69-102.

"Rediscovering Chinese religion and contemporary China", in: Wilt L. Idema ed., Chinese Studies in the Netherlands: Past, Present and Future (Brill: Leiden, 2014) 105-126.

"Divine violence to uphold moral values: The casebook of an Emperor Guan temple in Hunan province in 1851-1852", in: Duindam, J., Harries, J., Humfress, C. and Hurvitz, N., Law and Empire (Brill: Leiden, 2013) 314-338.

"Chinese new religious groups and religious freedom", in: Perry Schmidt-Leukel and Joachim Gentz eds., Religious Diversity in Chinese Thought (Palgrave Macmillan: New York, 2013) 243-257.

"The Non-Action Teachings and Christianity: Confusion and Similarities", in: Philip Clart ed., Chinese and European Perspectives on the Study of Chinese Popular Religions (Boyang Publishing: Taipei, 2012), pp.295-328.

"Towards Retrieving Early Oral Traditions: Some Ruminations on Orality and Textuality in Early Chinese Culture", in: Cheng Pei-Kai and Fan Ka Wai eds., New Perspectives on the Research of Chinese Culture (Springer Science and Business Media: Singapore, 2012), pp. 45-61

"Violence in Chinese Religious Culture", in: Murphy, A. R. (Ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence (Malden/Oxford/Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. 2011), pp. 249-262.

"Dootokutekikachi o iji suru tame no kami no booryoku" 道徳的価値を維持するための神の暴力―湖南省における関帝廟の事例(一八五一~一八五二年). In: Takeuchi Fuasji 武内 房司(Ed.), Ekkyoo suru kindai Ajia no minshuu shuukyoo 越境する近代東アジアの民衆宗教―中国・台湾・香港・ベトナム、そして日本 (Tokyo: Meiseki shoten, 2011) pp. 125-152.

ハール,バレンデ・テル(田海) （Maruyama Hiroshi trsl. 丸山 宏, "Shobutsu o yomi riyo suru rekishi" 「書物を讀み利用する歴史:新しい史料から」 ("New sources on the history of reading and using texts"), Tohogaku 　東方學 120 (2010), pp. 135-152

Tian Hai (Zhang Chongfu 張崇富 trsl.), "Yaodie xinyi" 瑤牒新意, Hongdao 弘道 2010:1-13.

"The present situation of religious culture in China: A report on religious culture, state control of religion, and recent changes, followed by some policy recommendations" (report for the Dutch embassy in Beijing, 2010)

"The Dragon Flower Teachings and the Practice of Ritual", Minsu quyi 163 (2009: 3) 117-159.

"Yongzheng and his abbots", in: The People and the Dao: New Studies of Chinese Religions in Honour of Prof. Daniel L. Overmyer. Edited by Philip Clart and Paul Crowe. (Sankt Augustin: Institut Monumenta Serica, 2009), pp. 435-477

"The Teachings of the Dragon Flower as Continuation of Song-Yuan Lay-Buddhism", in: Z. Wesolowski ed., Research on Religions in China: Status quo and Perspectives (Monumenta Serica Sinological Center, Taibei/Xinzhuang, 2007 [actually 2008]) 31-83 (as well as op.cit., 85-159 translation into Chinese + comments by Paul Katz and Wang Jianchuan).

six contributions to: F. Pregadio ed., The Encyclopedia of Taoism (London: Routledge, 2007), Taoism and secret societies (170-171), Guan Yu (454-455), jinxiang (585-586), Shao Yuanjie (878-879), Tao Zhongwen (971-972), Wang Qinruo (1014-1015).

two contributions on the Falun Gong and Li Hongzhi, in: Peter Clarke ed., Encyclopedia on New Religious Movements (Routledge Curzon Press: London, 2005) 180-182, 310-311.

" Thee en cup-a-soup: enige opmerkingen over thee, ritueel en sociale interactie in het traditionele China" (Oratie uitgesproken op 26 oktober 2001 te Leiden, in bijgewerkte vorm beschikbaar gemaakt op 22 september 2004)

Tian Hai 田海 (Ji Qiufeng trsl.), "Chongxin sikao zhongguo wenhua zhongde 'baoli'" 重新思考中國文化中的暴力, Sun Jiang 孫江ed., Shijian, jiyi, xushu事件.记忆.叙述 (Hangzhou: Zhejiang renmin, 2004), pp. 134-155

Two contributions to B. Staiger ed., China Handbuch (Institut fur Asienkunde, Hamburg), 2003 (pp. 248-240: "Geheimgesellschaften", and pp. 373-374: " Klerus") Hamburg: Institut fur Asienkunde.

"Whose Norm, Whose Heresy: The Case of the Song-Yuan White Lotus Movement", in: Irene Pieper, Michael Schimmelpfennig, and Joost van Soosten eds., Häresien (Wilhelm Fink Verlag: München, 2003), pp. 67-93.

"China's Inner Demons: The Political Impact of the Demonological Paradigm," in: Woei Lien Chong ed., China's Great Proletarian Revolution: Master Narratives and Post-Mao Counternarratives (Rowman & Littlefield: London, 2002), pp. 27-68 (revised version of my 1996-1997 article)

"PR China: Falun Gong: assessing its origins and present situation" (July 2002; ISSN 1020-8429. On behalf of WriteNet for use by the UNHCR / internal document )

"Myth in the Shape of History: Elusive Triad Leaders", in: Irene Lim ed. Chinese Triads: Perspectives and Histories, Identities, and Spheres of Impact (Singapore: Singapore History Museum, 2002) 19-31.

"The Buddhist Option: Aspects of Religious Life in the Lower Yangzi Region from 1100-1340", T'oung Pao LXXXVII (2001) 92-152.

"Rethinking 'violence' in Chinese culture,"  in: Goeran Aijmer and Jos Abbink eds., Meanings of Violence: a Cross Cultural Perspective (Oxford: Berg, 2000) 123-140. Trsl. by Ji Qiufeng as Tian Hai, "Chongxin sikao zhongguo wenhua zhongde 'baoli'", in: Sun Jiang ed., Shijian, jiyi, xushu (Hangzhou: Zhejiang renmin, 2004), pp. 134-155.

"Teaching with Incense", in: Studies in Central and East Asian Religions 11 (2000)  1-15

"The Rise of the  Guan Yu  Cult: The Daoist Connection" , in: Jan A.M. DeMeyer en Peter M. Engelfriet eds., Linked Faiths: Essays on Chinese Religions and Traditional Culture in Honour of Kristofer Schipper (Leiden: Brill, 1999) 183-204

"Das politische Wesen des daoistischen Rituals", in: Josef Thesing and Thomas Awe eds., Dao in China und im Westen (Bonn: Bouvier, 1999) 113-139.

"A New Interpretation of the Yao Charters," Paul van der Velde  and Alex McKay eds., New Developments in Asian Studies (London: Kegan Paul International, 1998) 3-19. Trsl. by Zhang Chongfu, as Tian Hai, "Yaodie xinyi", in: Hongdao 2010:1-13.

"China's inner demons: the political impact of the demonological paradigm," China Information, Vol. XI, Nos. 2/3 (1996-1997) 54-88.

"Local Society and the Organization of Cults in Early Modern China: A Preliminary Study" in: Studies in Central and East Asian Religions 8 (1995) 1-43.

"Introduction", "Traditional Chinese Religion on Taiwan" and "Offering Incense" in: Mark de Fraeye ed. and comp., Taiwan, Isle of Beauty (Freiburg: Schilinger Verlag, 1995) 9-10, 93-99, 133-134.

"Messianism and the Heaven and Earth Society", in: David Ownby en Mary Somers Heidhues eds., "Secret Societies" Reconsidered (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1993) 153-176.

"Newly Recovered Anecdotes from Hong Mai's (1123-1202) Yijian zhi", in: Journal of Sung-Yuan Studies, 23 (1993) 19-41.

"The Gathering of Brothers and Elders (ko-lao hui): A New Hypothesis", Leonard Blusse and Harriet Zurndorfer eds., Conflict and Accommodation in Early Modern China: Essays in Honour of Erik Zurcher (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1993) 259-283.

"The Genesis and Spread of Temple Cults in Fukien", in: E.B. Vermeer ed., Development and Decline of Fukien Province in the 17th and 18th Centuries (Leiden: E.J. Brill,  1990) 349- 396.

Translation: Lin Renchuan, "Fukien's Private Sea Trade in the 16th and 17th Centuries", in: E.B. Vermeer ed., Development and Decline of Fukien Province in the 17th and 18th Centuries (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1990) 163-215.

"De burakumin: Discriminatie in Japan", in: D. van Arkel, B. ter Haar, L. Lucassen, J. Ramakers en R. Ross eds., Van Oost naar West: Racisme als mondiaal verschijnsel (Baarn: Ambo, 1990) 18-33.