Creating Confucian Authority

The Field of Ritual Learning in Early China to 9 CE
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46191-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 152, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

Reihe: Sinica Leidensia

Ritual Learning is a key driver in the cultural dominance of Confucianism. In early China, Confucian officials derive political influence from the sub-discipline of ritual. Imperial regimes establish legitimacy through their state religion, headed by sacrifices to ancestors and to deities of Heaven and Earth. Ritual Learning allows Confucian-educated officials to assert control over these cults, and reshape dynastic legitimacy according to their own design, claimed to derive from the sage kings of antiquity. Confucianism is not just a philosophical and intellectual tradition. Through its ritual expertise, it has cultural and political power, like that of a religion, allowing it to perpetuate itself successfully over time, even in contemporary China.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chard, Robert L

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Kult, Riten, Feiertage, Zeremonien, Gebete
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Östliche Religionen Konfuzianismus

Über Autor(innen)

Robert L. Chard, PhD (1990, University of California, Berkeley) is University Lecturer/Associate Professor in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Anne’s College. He has published on the visible culture of Confucianism in China and Japan.