Confucianism and Sacred Space
Confucianism and Sacred Space Temples dedicated to Confucius are found throughout China and across East Asia, dating back over two thousand years. Huang uses the Confucius temple to explore…
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Confucianism and Sacred Space
Temples dedicated to Confucius are found throughout China and across East Asia, dating back over two thousand years. Huang uses the Confucius temple to explore Confucianism both as one of China's "three religions" (with Buddhism and Daoism) and as a cultural phenomenon, from the early imperial era through the present day. These sacred and magnificent sanctuaries hold deep cultural and political significance.This book brings together studies from Chin-shing Huang's decades-long research into Confucius temples that individually and collectively consider Confucianism as religion.
Their complex histories shed light on the religious nature and character of Confucianism and its status as official religion He argues for viewing Confucius temples as the holy ground of Confucianism, symbolic sites of sacred space that represent a point of convergence between political and cultural power.