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"How has the philosophy of Confucius affected the development of China? What is the role of Confucianism in today's China? The authors have presented a readable, non-technical introduction to the philosophy/ religion which has so shaped China's story. They have traced the development of Confucianism; have analyzed its influences; and have appraised the significances of its dominance. It is a concise book for the student of religion, philosophy, or...

Six centuries before the birth of Jesus, a Chinese sage named Master Kong or Kong Fuzi (later latinized to Confucius) drafted the principles of a society founded upon virtue. For more than two thousand years, Kong Fuzi's work has remained the foundation of Chinese civilization. In this volume, Jennifer Oldstone-Moore takes readers on a tour of this belief system. Not quite a religion, more than a philosophy, Confucianism coexists with Daoism and Buddhism...

"Imagining Boundaries explores the mapping of the intellectual tradition of Confucianism in Chinese history. The authors show that the Confucian tradition is not a neatly packaged organic whole in which the constitutive parts fall naturally into place, but rather that it displays the ruptures of all cultural constructions. Accordingly, Confucianism has been configured and reconfigured in time in response to changing intellectual and historical circumstances." "This...

Why do we pretend that the world's religious traditions are different paths to the same God? Scholar Stephen Prothero argues that it is time to replace naïve hopes of interreligious unity with deeper knowledge of religious differences. He maintains that each religion attempts to solve a different human problem, and examines each of these traditions on its own terms to create an indispensable guide for anyone who wants to better understand the big...

Answers questions concerning the origins, development, doctrines and practices, ethics, spirituality, and other aspects of three major East Asian belief systems. 101 Questions & Answers on Confucianism, Daoism, and Shinto packs a great deal of information about three major East Asian faith communities--Confucianism, Daoism, and Shinto---into a series of brief, thematically arranged sections, all in the popular question and answer format. Major areas...

This edition goes beyond others that largely leave readers to their own devices in understanding this cryptic work, by providing an entrée into the text that parallels the traditional Chinese way of approaching it: alongside Slingerland's exquisite rendering of the work are his translations of a selection of classic Chinese commentaries that shed light on difficult passages, provide historical and cultural context, and invite the reader to ponder...

Part 3 of 3 explores the genesis of spiritual thought and investigates the central doctrines of Confucianism, Shinto, Hinduism, Judaism and Islam.

Korea has one of the most diverse religious cultures in the world today, with a range and breadth of religious practice virtually unrivaled by any other country. This volume in the Princeton Readings in Religions series is the first anthology in any language, including Korean, to bring together a comprehensive set of original sources covering the whole gamut of religious practice in both premodern and contemporary Korea. The book's thirty-two chapters...

Confucius sought to return a chaotic and politically corrupt China to its ancient ways, and developed teachings governing family relationships and obligations of ruler and ruled. This collection of short programs explores Confucius' life, the development of his philosophy and its impact on ancient China.