书名：The Divine Nature of Power: Chinese Ritual Architecture at the Sacred Site of Jinci / 神性的力量：晋祠祭祀建筑中的仪式空间
定价：385.0
ISBN：9780674025134
作者：Tracy Miller
版次：1
出版时间：2007-01

内容提要：
书名：The Divine Nature of Power: Chinese Ritual Architecture at the Sacred Site of Jinci / 权力的神圣本质：晋祠祭祀建筑中的仪式空间
作者：Tracy Miller (米锦燕)
出版社：Harvard University Asia Center (哈佛大学亚洲中心，由哈佛大学出版社发行)，2007年
装帧：精装，265页
语种：英文
尺寸：约 21.6*27.9 cm（8 1/2 x 11 英寸）

ISBN：978-0-6740-2513-4

简介
本书以山西太原晋祠为研究对象，这座历经一千五百年持续修葺的祭祀建筑群为我们理解中国古代的宗教艺术与建筑提供了独特的文本与物质证据。作者Tracy Miller是范德堡大学艺术史与亚洲研究副教授，她运用跨学科方法，整合考古学、人类学、宗教学以及社会史和艺术史的研究成果，力图揭示宗教艺术——包括寺庙建筑、雕塑和壁画——背后的创作动机。
通过对晋祠建筑风格和场地布局的细致考察，作者阐明了在这片神圣景观中，建筑所承载的多重意义，以及不同赞助群体如何通过文本和背景来修改这些意义，从而影响供奉于其中的神灵的身份。晋祠始建于北魏时期（386-534），用以纪念周朝晋国开国诸侯唐叔虞。书中分为八章，分别探讨晋祠的名称与位置、太原与晋国始祖、唐叔虞祠、晋水与晋泉神、宋代圣母殿、晋祠神灵的操控，以及结论：作为神圣存在的表达，还附录了晋祠现存建筑的年代列表。本书隶属于哈佛燕京学社专著系列（Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series）第62种。

Built around three sacred springs, the Jin Shrines complex (Jinci), near Taiyuan in Shanxi province, contains a wealth of ancient art and architecture dating back to the Northern Song dynasty (960-1127). The complex's 1,500-year-long textual record allows us to compare physical and written evidence to understand how the built environment was manipulated to communicate ideas about divinity, identity, and status. Jinci's significance varied over time according to both its patrons' needs and changes in the political and physical landscape. The impact of these changes can be read in the physical development of the site. Using an interdisciplinary approach drawing on the research of archaeologists, anthropologists, and religious, social, and art historians, this book seeks to recover the motivations behind the creation of religious art, including temple buildings, sculpture, and wall paintings. Through an examination of building style and site organization, the author illuminates the multiplicity of meanings projected by buildings within a sacred landscape and the ability of competing patronage groups to modify those meanings with text and context, thereby affecting the identity of the deities housed within them. This study of the art and architecture of Jinci is thus about divine creations and their power to create divinity.