Confucianism as Religion
Subtitle: Controversies and Consequences
Publisher: Brill; BRILL
Published: Nov 08, 2012
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9789004243736
Description: "Confucianism as Religion tackles the perennially controversial question of whether Confucianism is a religion. After surveying the epistemological difficulties in both Chinese and Western scholarship in addressing the controversy over Confucian religiosity, Yong Chen convincingly reveals the sociopolitical and cultural stakes that are deeply entangled with the controversy. He brings the issue to the scrutiny of the latest theoretical constructions in religious studies and anthropology and, by defying Wilfred C. Smith's claim that it is a question that the West has never been able to answer and China never been able to ask, proposes a holistic and contextual approach to the question about the religious status of Confucianism."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Source title: Confucianism as Religion: Controversies and Consequences