Huang Confucianism and Sacred Space

The Confucius Temple from Imperial China to Today
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-231-55289-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

This book brings together studies from Chin-shing Huang’s decades-long research into Confucius temples that individually and collectively consider Confucianism as religion. It offers keen insights into Confucius temples and their significance in the intertwined intellectual, political, social, and religious histories of imperial China.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Huang, Chin-shing

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Östliche Religionen Konfuzianismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen Sakralbauten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction. The Confucius Temple as a Ritual System: Manifestations of Power, Belief, and Legitimacy in Traditional China
1. Expanding the Symbolic Meaning and Function of the Rites: The Evolution of Confucius Temples in Imperial China
2. Confucianism as a Religion: A Comparative Study of Traditional Chinese Religions
3. Sages and Saints: A Comparative Study of Canonization in Confucianism and Christianity
4. The Cultural Politics of Autocracy: The Confucius Temple and Ming Despotism, 1368–1530
5. Xunzi: The Confucius Temple’s Absentee
6. The Disenchantment with Confucianism in Modern China
7. The Lonely Confucius Temples Across the Taiwan Straits: The Difficult Transformation of Modern China’s Traditional Culture
Conclusion: Reflections on My Study of Confucianism as a Religion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Chin-shing Huang is distinguished research fellow and vice president of Academia Sinica in Taiwan. His books in English include Philosophy, Philology, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century China: Li Fu and the Lu-Wang School Under the Ch’ing (1995) and Business as a Vocation: The Autobiography of Wu Ho-su (2002).