The Worship of Confucius in Japan
Title | The Worship of Confucius in Japan PDF eBook |
Author | James McMullen |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 566 |
Release | 2021-03-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1684175992 |
How has Confucius, quintessentially and symbolically Chinese, been received throughout Japanese history? The Worship of Confucius in Japan provides the first overview of the richly documented and colorful Japanese version of the East Asian ritual to venerate Confucius, known in Japan as the sekiten. The original Chinese political liturgy embodied assumptions about sociopolitical order different from those of Japan. Over more than thirteen centuries, Japanese in power expressed a persistently ambivalent response to the ritual’s challenges and often tended to interpret the ceremony in cultural rather than political terms. Like many rituals, the sekiten self-referentially reinterpreted earlier versions of itself. James McMullen adopts a diachronic and comparative perspective. Focusing on the relationship of the ritual to political authority in the premodern period, McMullen sheds fresh light on Sino–Japanese cultural relations and on the distinctive political, cultural, and social history of Confucianism in Japan. Successive sections of The Worship of Confucius in Japan trace the vicissitudes of the ceremony through two major cycles of adoption, modification, and decline, first in ancient and medieval Japan, then in the late feudal period culminating in its rejection at the Meiji Restoration. An epilogue sketches the history of the ceremony in the altered conditions of post-Restoration Japan and up to the present.
Confucianism and the Family
Title | Confucianism and the Family PDF eBook |
Author | Walter H. Slote |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Total Pages | 412 |
Release | 1998-07-10 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780791437360 |
An interdisciplinary exploration of the Confucian family in East Asia which includes historical, psychocultural, and gender studies perspectives.
Ancestor-worship and Japanese Law
Title | Ancestor-worship and Japanese Law PDF eBook |
Author | Nobushige Hozumi |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 94 |
Release | 2017-08-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780649368402 |
Confucianism and Sacred Space
Title | Confucianism and Sacred Space PDF eBook |
Author | Chin-shing Huang |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | 213 |
Release | 2020-12-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0231552890 |
Temples dedicated to Confucius are found throughout China and across East Asia, dating back over two thousand years. These sacred and magnificent sanctuaries hold deep cultural and political significance. This book brings together studies from Chin-shing Huang’s decades-long research into Confucius temples that individually and collectively consider Confucianism as religion. Huang uses the Confucius temple to explore Confucianism both as one of China’s “three religions” (with Buddhism and Daoism) and as a cultural phenomenon, from the early imperial era through the present day. He argues for viewing Confucius temples as the holy ground of Confucianism, symbolic sites of sacred space that represent a point of convergence between political and cultural power. Their complex histories shed light on the religious nature and character of Confucianism and its status as official religion in imperial China. Huang examines topics such as the political and intellectual elements of Confucian enshrinement, how Confucius temples were brought into the imperial ritual system from the Tang dynasty onward, and why modern Chinese largely do not think of Confucianism as a religion. A nuanced analysis of the question of Confucianism as religion, Confucianism and Sacred Space offers keen insights into Confucius temples and their significance in the intertwined intellectual, political, social, and religious histories of imperial China.
Confucianism
Title | Confucianism PDF eBook |
Author | Ronnie L. Littlejohn |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 251 |
Release | 2010-10-23 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0857736310 |
It is arguably Confucianism, not Communism, which lies at the core of China's deepest sense of self. Although reviled by Chinese intellectuals of the 1950s-1990s, who spoke of it as 'yellow silt clotting the arteries of the country', Confucianism has defied eradication, remaining a fundamental part of the nation's soul for 2500 years. And now, as China assumes greater ascendancy on the world economic stage, it is making a strong comeback as a pragmatic philosophy of personal as well as corporate transformation, popular in home, boardroom and in current political discussion. What is this complex system of ideology that stems from the teachings of a remarkable man called Confucius (Kongzi), who lived in the distant sixth century BCE? Though he left no writings of his own, the oral teachings recorded by the founder's disciples in the 'Analects' left a profound mark on later Chinese politics and governance. They outline a system of social cohesiveness dependent upon personal virtue and self-control. For Confucius, society's harmony relied upon the appropriate behaviour of each individual within the social hierarchy; and its emphasis on practical ethics has led many to think of Confucianism as a secular philosophy rather than a religion. In this new, comprehensive introduction, Ronnie Littlejohn argues rather that Confucianism is profoundly spiritual, and must be treated as such. He offers full coverage of the tradition's sometimes neglected metaphysics, as well as its varied manifestations in education, art, literature and culture.
Japanese Confucianism
Title | Japanese Confucianism PDF eBook |
Author | Kiri Paramore |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 253 |
Release | 2016-04-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107058651 |
This book charts the history of Confucianism in Japan to offer new perspectives on the sociology of Confucianiam across East Asia.
The Development of Religion in Japan
Title | The Development of Religion in Japan PDF eBook |
Author | George William Knox |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 248 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | Japan |
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