Chinese Religion An Introduction

Name: Chinese Religion An Introduction
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ISBN: 9780534255367

ISBN-10: 0534255361

ISBN-13: 9780534255367

Edition: 5th 1996 (Revised)

Authors: Laurence G. Thompson

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This accessible introduction to the study of Chinese religion presents religious expression as a manifestation of Chinese culture. Like other books in Wadsworth's Religious Life in History Series, this text explores religion as a means to 'ultimate transformation.'

Book details

List price: $130.95
Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 7/14/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 182
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English




The Early Chinese Worldview



Prescientific Theory and Religious Practice



The Family: Kindred and Ancestors



The Community: Gods and Temples



The State: Emperor and Officials



Three Ways to Ultimate Transformation: (1) Taoist Tradition



Three Ways to Ultimate Transformation: (2) Literati Tradition



Three Ways to Ultimate Transformation: (3) Buddhist Tradition



Their Separate Ways: Cults and Sects



The Festival Year



Traditional Chinese Religion as a Means of Coping



The Disruption of Tradition


Appendices



The Canons of the Three Traditions



The Mind or Heart Scripture of Perfect Wisdom



The Heaven-Honored One of the Primal Beginnings Speaks the Scripture of the Precious


Names of the Three Controllers


Glossary


Selected Readings


Index