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Author : John Knight Shryock
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Origin and Development of the State Cult of Confucius written by John Knight Shryock and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Knight Shryock
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Origin and Development of the State Cult of Confucius written by John Knight Shryock and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John K. Shryock
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Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (662 download)
Download or read book The origin and development of the state cult of Confucius written by John K. Shryock and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John E. Shryock
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Download or read book The Origin and Development of the State Cult of Confucius written by John E. Shryock and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carl Gustav Rosberg
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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Origin and Development of the State Cult of Confucius written by Carl Gustav Rosberg and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : American Historical Association
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Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)
Download or read book The Origin and Development of the State Cult of Confucius. An Introductory Study. By John K. Shryock written by American Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas A. Wilson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684173779
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book On Sacred Grounds written by Thomas A. Wilson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The sacred landscape of imperial China was dotted with Buddhist monasteries, Daoist temples, shrines to local deities, and the altars of the mandarinate. Prominent among the official shrines were the temples in every capital throughout the empire devoted to the veneration of Confucius. Twice a year members of the educated elite and officials in each area gathered to offer sacrifices to Confucius, his disciples, and the major scholars of the Confucian tradition. The worship of Confucius is one of the least understood aspects of Confucianism, even though the temple and the cult were highly visible signs of Confucianism’s existence in imperial China. To many modern observers of traditional China, the temple cult is difficult to reconcile with the image of Confucianism as an ethical, humanistic, rational philosophy. The nine essays in this book are an attempt to recover the meaning and significance of the religious side of Confucianism. Among other subjects, the authors analyze the social, cultural, and political meaning attached to the cult; its history; the legends, images, and rituals associated with the worship of Confucius; the power of the descendants of Confucius, the main temple in the birthplace of Confucius; and the contemporary fate of temples to Confucius."
Author : Xinzhong Yao
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521644303
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (443 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to Confucianism written by Xinzhong Yao and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-02-13 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the many strands of Confucianism in a style accessible to students and general readers.
Author : Leon Stover
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786449361
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (493 download)
Download or read book Imperial China and the State Cult of Confucius written by Leon Stover and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-12-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Initiated during the Former Han Dynasty in 136 BCE, the state cult of Confucius endured for more than 2000 years as the civil religion of a vast empire that ever-renewed itself despite periodic disunity and barbarian conquests. This was a weak agrarian state whose foundation was a Neolithic peasantry, whose archaic state-idea traces to the dawn of Chinese civilization, and whose ruling elite earned its credentials in civil service examinations based on classic Confucianism dating to pre-imperial times--all centered on the political thinking of a late Bronze Age philosopher. This work explores the political logic of old China's archaic civilization, where court protocol was the very essence of a liturgical government whose philosophical basis rested on the scriptural authority of Confucian teachings. Here is the historical paradox (vast empire, weak state) resolved in this book. By looking into the state cult of Confucius and its origins, the illogical begins to look reasonable for the pre-modern conditions of antiquity. Included are 128 photographs along with an appendix covering the Great Chinese Museum of New York and a bibliographic essay offering essential information on important works of Sinology.
Author : James McMullen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684175992
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book The Worship of Confucius in Japan written by James McMullen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How has Confucius, quintessentially and symbolically Chinese, been received throughout Japanese history? The Worship of Confucius in Japan provides the first overview of the richly documented and colorful Japanese version of the East Asian ritual to venerate Confucius, known in Japan as the sekiten. The original Chinese political liturgy embodied assumptions about sociopolitical order different from those of Japan. Over more than thirteen centuries, Japanese in power expressed a persistently ambivalent response to the ritual’s challenges and often tended to interpret the ceremony in cultural rather than political terms. Like many rituals, the sekiten self-referentially reinterpreted earlier versions of itself. James McMullen adopts a diachronic and comparative perspective. Focusing on the relationship of the ritual to political authority in the premodern period, McMullen sheds fresh light on Sino–Japanese cultural relations and on the distinctive political, cultural, and social history of Confucianism in Japan. Successive sections of The Worship of Confucius in Japan trace the vicissitudes of the ceremony through two major cycles of adoption, modification, and decline, first in ancient and medieval Japan, then in the late feudal period culminating in its rejection at the Meiji Restoration. An epilogue sketches the history of the ceremony in the altered conditions of post-Restoration Japan and up to the present.
Author : John Knight Shryock
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Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (918 download)
Download or read book The Study of Human Abilities written by John Knight Shryock and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wayne Deeker
Publisher : Hillcrest Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1626520011
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Mythbusting the Cult of Confucius written by Wayne Deeker and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China is ever-more important to western countries, yet remains shrouded in myth. This book is the first to part those myths and demystify the realities of Chinese ways. Western people need to know because Chinese traits and values, combined with China's modern power, now literally affect all. This book examines the ancient origins of Chinese thinking in Confucianism and consequences for the modern world: it is especially relevant to business and government relations with China, also to educational and immigration issues. Yet it contains far more than warnings alone. Above all, it shows ways western people might learn from Chinese people, and to compassionately help them break free of their past.
Author : Jerry H. Bentley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521761628
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (616 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge World History written by Jerry H. Bentley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The era from 1400 to 1800 saw intense biological, commercial, and cultural exchanges, and the creation of global connections on an unprecedented scale. Divided into two books, Volume 6 of the Cambridge World History series considers these critical transformations. The first book examines the material and political foundations of the era, including global considerations of the environment, disease, technology, and cities, along with regional studies of empires in the eastern and western hemispheres, crossroads areas such as the Indian Ocean, Central Asia, and the Caribbean, and sites of competition and conflict, including Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Mediterranean. The second book focuses on patterns of change, examining the expansion of Christianity and Islam, migrations, warfare, and other topics on a global scale, and offering insightful detailed analyses of the Columbian exchange, slavery, silver, trade, entrepreneurs, Asian religions, legal encounters, plantation economies, early industrialism, and the writing of history.
Author : Sebastien Billioud
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190258152
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book The Sage and the People written by Sebastien Billioud and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2015 Pierre-Antoine Bernheim Prize for the History of Religion by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres After a century during which Confucianism was viewed by academics as a relic of the imperial past or, at best, a philosophical resource, its striking comeback in Chinese society today raises a number of questions about the role that this ancient tradition might play in a contemporary context. The Sage and the People is the first comprehensive enquiry into the "Confucian revival" that began in China during the 2000s. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork carried out over eight years in various parts of the country, it explores the re-appropriation and reinvention of popular practices in fields as diverse as education, self-cultivation, religion, ritual, and politics. The book analyzes the complexity of the "Confucian revival" within the broader context of emerging challenges to such categories as religion, philosophy, and science that prevailed in modernization narratives throughout the last century. Exploring state cults both in Mainland China and Taiwan, authors Sébastien Billioud and Joël Thoraval compare the interplay between politics and religion on the two shores of the Taiwan strait and attempt to shed light on possible future developments of Confucianism in Chinese society.
Author : Thomas A. Wilson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804724258
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (242 download)
Download or read book Genealogy of the Way written by Thomas A. Wilson and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in the late Southern Sung one sect of Confucianism gradually came to dominate literati culture and, by the Ming dynasty, was canonized as state orthodoxy. This book is a historical and textual critique of the construction of an ideologically exclusionary conception of the Confucian tradition, and how claims to possession of the truth—the Tao—came to serve power.
Author : Chin-shing Huang
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231552890
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Confucianism and Sacred Space written by Chin-shing Huang and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Temples dedicated to Confucius are found throughout China and across East Asia, dating back over two thousand years. These sacred and magnificent sanctuaries hold deep cultural and political significance. This book brings together studies from Chin-shing Huang’s decades-long research into Confucius temples that individually and collectively consider Confucianism as religion. Huang uses the Confucius temple to explore Confucianism both as one of China’s “three religions” (with Buddhism and Daoism) and as a cultural phenomenon, from the early imperial era through the present day. He argues for viewing Confucius temples as the holy ground of Confucianism, symbolic sites of sacred space that represent a point of convergence between political and cultural power. Their complex histories shed light on the religious nature and character of Confucianism and its status as official religion in imperial China. Huang examines topics such as the political and intellectual elements of Confucian enshrinement, how Confucius temples were brought into the imperial ritual system from the Tang dynasty onward, and why modern Chinese largely do not think of Confucianism as a religion. A nuanced analysis of the question of Confucianism as religion, Confucianism and Sacred Space offers keen insights into Confucius temples and their significance in the intertwined intellectual, political, social, and religious histories of imperial China.
Author : Michael Nylan
Publisher : Crown Archetype
ISBN 13 : 0307590224
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Lives of Confucius written by Michael Nylan and published by Crown Archetype. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confucius—“Master Kung” (551–479 BCE), the Chinese thinker and social philosopher—originated teachings that have deeply influenced Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese thought and life over many centuries. His philosophy emphasized personal and governmental morality, justice, and appropriateness in social relationships. In time these values gained prominence in China over other doctrines, such as Taoism and even Buddhism. His thoughts later developed into a system of philosophy known as Confucianism. Today there remain many mysteries about the actual circumstances of his life, and the development of his influence has yet to be encapsulated for the general reader. But with Michael Nylan and Thomas Wilson’s Lives of Confucius, many mysteries are laid to rest about his historical life, and fascinating details emerge about how his mythic stature evolved over time, right up to the present day.
