Publication
Imprint: Albany : State University of New York Press, c1990. Series: SUNY Series in Religious Studies. Responsibility: Rodney L. Taylor. Physical: Text : 1 volume : xiii, 198 pages ; 23 cm. Features: Includes glossary, index.
Call number
Commentary / Taylo
ISBN
0791403122 / 9780791403129
Collections
CSS Library Notes
Description: The role of Confucianism in the development of East Asian Cultures has only recently begun to be fully appreciated. Even with this recognition, there is still little understanding of the tradition as a religious tradition. This book presents Confucianism as a religious tradition. In no other book has there been a sustained presentation of the many and varied religious dimensions of the tradition. -- from publisher
Table of Contents: Introduction
I. Confucianism and the Political Order: Religion Poised in Risk
II. Scripture and the Sage: On the Question of a Confucian Scripture
III. The Sage as Saint: A Study in Religious Categories
IV. The Centered Self: Confucian Religious Autobiography
V. Proposition and Praxis in Neo-Confucian Syncretism
VI. The Sudden/Gradual Paradigm and Neo-Confucian Mind Cultivation
VII. Mediation and Ming Neo-Orthodoxy
VIII. The Problem of Suffering: Christian and Confucian Dimensions
IX. Modernity and Religion: A Contemporary Confucian Response
FY1991 / FY2015 /
Table of Contents: Introduction
I. Confucianism and the Political Order: Religion Poised in Risk
II. Scripture and the Sage: On the Question of a Confucian Scripture
III. The Sage as Saint: A Study in Religious Categories
IV. The Centered Self: Confucian Religious Autobiography
V. Proposition and Praxis in Neo-Confucian Syncretism
VI. The Sudden/Gradual Paradigm and Neo-Confucian Mind Cultivation
VII. Mediation and Ming Neo-Orthodoxy
VIII. The Problem of Suffering: Christian and Confucian Dimensions
IX. Modernity and Religion: A Contemporary Confucian Response
FY1991 / FY2015 /
Physical description
xiii, 198 p.; 23 cm
Description
The role of Confucianism in the development of East Asian Cultures has only recently begun to be fully appreciated. Even with this recognition, there is still little understanding of the tradition as a religious tradition. This book presents Confucianism as a religious tradition. In no other book has there been a sustained presentation of the many and varied religious dimensions of the tradition.
Language
Original language
English