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Title:
Confucianism as a world religion contested histories and contemporary realities
Author:
Sun, Anna Xiao Dong, 1971- author.
ISBN:
9781400846085
Publication Information:
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2013.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xix, 244 pages)
Abstract:
Is Confucianism a religion? If so, why do most Chinese think it isn't? From ancient Confucian temples, to nineteenth-century archives, to the testimony of people interviewed by the author throughout China over a period of more than a decade, this book traces the birth and growth of the idea of Confucianism as a world religion. The book begins at Oxford, in the late nineteenth century, when Friedrich Max Müller and James Legge classified Confucianism as a world religion in the new discourse of ""world religions"" and the emerging discipline of comparative religion. Anna Sun shows how that decisive moment continues to influence the understanding of Confucianism in the contemporary world, not only in the West but also in China, where the politics of Confucianism has become important to the present regime in a time of transition. Contested histories of Confucianism are vital signs of social and political change.
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