Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
Ausgabe:
First edition
ISBN:
9781350262201
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9781350262195
Serie:
Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy of Religion
Inhalt:
"The notion of 'gods' and religious beliefs in early China are often considered to be either unique to a single non-representative thinker, and therefore irrelevant in the writings of mainstream Chinese thinkers, or inconsequential to Chinese moral and political thought. Rejecting the claim that religious practice plays a minimal philosophical role, Kelly James Clark and Justin Winslett offer a textual study that maps the religious terrain of early Chinese philosophical texts. They analyse the pantheon of disembodied spirits, from high gods down to ancestor spirits, and discuss their various representations as anthropomorphic, transcendent and enforcers of morality, as well as examining conceptions of the afterlife and the role of the religious ritual in moral formation. Demonstrating how religious beliefs are both textually endorsed and ritually embodied, this book reveals that religion in early China is neither philosophically irrelevant nor limited to the domain of cognition, and instead forms a complex philosophical system capable of adapting to social, economic, political and environmental conditions."--
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction -- Part I: Gods High and Low. 1. Heaven and the High Gods in Early Chinese Thought ; 2. Heaven in the Xunzi, Mozi and Zhuangzi ; 3. Lesser Gods of the Pre-Imperial Era ; 4. The Depersonalization of Heaven? -- Part II: Gods and "the Philosophers" 3. The Evolutionary Psychology of Chinese Religion ; 4. The Myth of Confucius and Confucianism ; 5. Was Confucius a Theist? ; 6. Mencius on Heaven ; 7. The Evolutionary Psychology of Chinese Religion -- Part III: Ancestors and Afterlife. 8. The Soul and the Afterlife -- Part IV: The Moral Salience of Gods, Ancestors and Afterlife. 9. Sacrifice -- Appendix: The Curious Case of Dong Zhongshu -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781350262218
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781350262171
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Clark, Kelly James, 1956 - A spiritual geography of early Chinese thought London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023 ISBN 9781350262171
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
China
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Götter
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Religiöses Leben
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Religionsphilosophie
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Geschichte -220
DOI:
10.5040/9781350262201
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