Chinese Way in Religion (RELIGIOUS LIFE OF MAN) - Softcover

Jordan Paper & Laurence G. Thompson

9780534537357: Chinese Way in Religion (RELIGIOUS LIFE OF MAN)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534537359 ISBN 13: 9780534537357

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 1997

Designed to parallel Laurence Thompson's CHINESE RELIGION, this newly revised and classic anthology, now edited by Jordan Paper, continues the theme that Chinese religion is best studied as an expression of Chinese culture. This new edition retains the best of the previous edition, while providing new readings that are better suited for today's students.

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Ph.D., University of Wisconsin

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Foreword. Preface to the First Edition. Preface to the Second Edition. Acknowledgments. Table of Chinese Religious History. 1. The Early Chinese Worldview. 2. Prescientific Theory and Religious Practice. 3. The Family: Kindred and Ancestors. 4. The Community: Gods and Temples. 5. The State: Emperor and Officials. 6. Three Ways to Ultimate Transformation: (1) Taoist Tradition. 7. Three Ways to Ultimate Transformation: (2) Literati Tradition. 8. Three Ways to Ultimate Transformation: (3) Buddhist Tradition. 9. Their Separate Ways: Cults and Sects. 10. The Festival Year. 11. Traditional Chinese Religion as Means of Coping. 12. The Disruption of Tradition.

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