Title: Confucianism and Religion——On Confucian Concepts and Related Issues in Western Countries
Abstract: China’s Confucian, one of the schools before Qin Dynasty, had been the theoretical basis of social and political ethics since Western Han Dynasty. Religion concept in China was formed after the introduction of Buddhism and the rise of Taoism. Western scholars interpreted Confucian and theory of Confucian as Confucianism, one of the three main denominations in China. But the Jesuits into China and classical philosophers found it was atheism. Additionally, judging from the worship of supernatural forces, the pursuit of the ultimate value of human and special religious rituals, it embodied no religious nature. From perspective of pan-religious, some modern western scholars argue that Confucianism is religion of China. Their confusions and misunderstandings contain some reasonable thoughts and profound insights, which is helpful to explore further the nature of Confucian.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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