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Confucianism and Sacred Space
The Confucius Temple from Imperial China to Today
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Chin-shing Huang
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English
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2021
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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.
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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).
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James Flath, author of Traces of the Sage: Monument, Materiality, and the First Temple of Confucius:
Confucianism and Sacred Space brings to light the legacy of Chin-shing Huang, a leading scholar of Confucianism and Confucian temples, whose work has not received the attention it deserves in Western scholarship.
Confucianism and Sacred Space brings to light the legacy of Chin-shing Huang, a leading scholar of Confucianism and Confucian temples, whose work has not received the attention it deserves in Western scholarship.
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Contents
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Preface
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Introduction: The Confucius Temple as a Ritual System: Manifestations of Power, Belief, and Legitimacy in Traditional China
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I. Expanding the Symbolic Meaning and Function of the Rites: The Evolution of Confucius Temples in Imperial China
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II. Confucianism as a Religion: A Comparative Study of Traditional Chinese Religions
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III. Sages and Saints: A Comparative Study of Canonization in Confucianism and Christianity
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IV. The Cultural Politics of Autocracy: The Confucius Temple and Ming Despotism, 1368– 1530
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V. Xunzi: The Confucius Temple’s Absentee
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VI. The Disenchantment with Confucianism in Modern China
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VII. The Lonely Confucius Temples Across the Taiwan Straits: The Difficult Transformation of Modern China’s Traditional Culture
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Conclusion: Reflections on My Study of Confucianism as a Religion
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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December 10, 2020
eBook ISBN:
9780231552899
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8 b&w photographs and illustrations
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9780231552899
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