Chinese Religions

Type

Book

Authors

Julia Ching

ISBN 10

0883448750

ISBN 13

9780883448755

Tags

Other Eastern Religions & Sacred Texts

Abstract

Introduction -- The ancestral cult and divination : the dawn of ancient religion -- Sacrifice and kingship : the eclipse of ancient religion -- Morality and rituals : Confucianism as religious humanism -- Love or the law : Confucianism and its rivals : Mohism and Legalism -- Freedom and the natural : Taoism as religious philosophy -- Immortality and mysticism : Taoism as salvation religion -- Scripture and hermeneutics : Buddhism's entry to China -- Mysticism and devotion : Buddhism becomes Chinese -- Metaphysics and spirituality : Neo-Confucianism as response to Buddhism -- Ethnic survival : Islam and the other Middle Eastern religions -- Cultural assimilation : the dilemma of Christianity -- The vitality of syncretism : popular religion -- The future of Chinese religions -- Appendix : the Chinese liturgical year.

Description

xv, 275 pages ; 22 cm

Biblio Notes

27430800

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