Handbook of the History of Religions in China I: From the Beginnings Until the Period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms by Mu, Zhongjian

Handbook of the History of Religions in China I: From the Beginnings Until the Period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783838212074)

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Handbook of the History of Religions in China I: From the Beginnings Until the Period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms by Mu, Zhongjian

Handbook of the History of Religions in China I: From the Beginnings Until the Period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms

$80.00
Handbook of the History of Religions in China I: From the Beginnings Until the Period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms by Mu, Zhongjian

Handbook of the History of Religions in China I: From the Beginnings Until the Period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms

$80.00
Format: Paperback
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This book is part of an initiative in cooperation with renowned Chinese publishers to make fundamental, formative, and influential Chinese thinkers available to a western readership, providing absorbing insights into Chinese reflections of late, and offering a chance to grasp today's China.

In their influential book Handbook of the History of Religions in China, Zhongjian Mu and Jian Zhan present a panorama of the religions existing in China through time. In their fascinating History, they delineate the emergence and development of Daoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Islam, and Christianity and explore the roles they played in Chinese society and the interrelations between them.

In China, also due to the encompassing Confucian idea of "living together harmoniously while maintaining differences," religions--including newly arrived ones--came closer together than anywhere else in the world and reached a unique level of peaceful societal coexistence. Despite many frictions and conflicts, communication and reconciliation were indisputably predomi-nant in China throughout history.

Buddhism was peacefully introduced into China and, later on, a harmonious, symbiotic syncretism of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism developed--an exemplary process of how a diverse set of different religions can complement each other and contribute to a better life.

Author: Zhongjian Mu,Jian Zhan
ISBN-10: 383821207X
ISBN-13: 9783838212074
Publisher: Ibidem Press
Language: English
Published: 01/30/2021
Pages: 650
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.70w x 0.90d
By Zhongjian Mu
By Zhongjian Mu
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Zhongjian Mu, an accomplished philosophical historian and religious scholar of China, has pioneered Chinese contemporary religious studies. He is professor of the Chinese National School of Administration, professor of the Training Center of the State Bureau of Religious Affairs, member of the expert committee of the World Confucian Conference, and dean of Nishan Shengyuan Academy.

Jian Zhan is now professor at the School of Continuing Education of Renmin University of China. He has been engaged in the study of the history of Chinese religion and philosophy for a long time. At present, he is also a researcher of the Buddhist and religious teaching research base of the Ministry of Education, a visiting professor of Minzu University of China, member of International Confucian Association, and Honorary Chairman of the Chinese Society of Shixue.

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