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 predominant 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.
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 predominant 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.
Introduction; Phases of History of Religions in China; Historical Characteristics of Religions in China; Roles Religions Played Throughout Chinese History; Primitive Religions; Religions in the Three Archaic Dynasties and the Spring and Autumn; and Warring States Eras; Religions in the Qin and Han Dynasties: The Codification and Early; Growth of Buddhism and Daoism; Religions in Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties: Vibrant Growth; Religions in Sui and Tang Dynasties and the Periods of Five Dynasties; and Ten Kingdoms: Prosperity and Pluralism.
Zhongjian Mou, an accomplished philosophical historian and
religious scholar of China, has pioneered Chinese contemporary
religious studies. He was born in Yantai city of Shandong province
in May, 1939. From 1957 to 1965, he studied with Feng Youlan, Ren
Jiyu, Zhu Bokun at the Philosophy Department of Peking University.
From April 1966 to November 1987, he worked at the World Religion
Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (the
former Philosophy and Social Sciences Department of the Chinese
Academy of Sciences). Starting from 1987, he has been serving as
professor and doctoral tutor of the Philosophy and Religion
Department of Minzu University of China, once serving as the
director of the Research Center of the “985 Project” on
Contemporary Major National Religious Issues. He also serves as
consultant of the International Confucian Association, consultant
of the Chinese Religious Society, academic consultant of the China
Confucius Foundation, national condition expert of the Chinese
National Library; 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 Zhang, a graduate from the School of Philosophy of Renmin
University of China (1982), is now Professor of 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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