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The Sage and the People: The Confucian Revival in China

The Sage and the People: The Confucian Revival in China

Billioud, Sebastien
Thoraval, Joel

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AnthropologyConfucianismGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0190258144
ISBN13: 9780190258146
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Sep 1 2015
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Winner of the 2015 Pierre-Antoine Bernheim Prize for the History of Religion by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres

After a century during which Confucianism was viewed by academics as a relic of the imperial past or, at best, a philosophical resource, its striking comeback in Chinese society today raises a number of questions about the role that this ancient tradition might play in a contemporary context.

The Sage and the People is the first comprehensive enquiry into the Confucian revival that began in China during the 2000s. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork carried out over eight years in various parts of the country, it explores the re-appropriation and reinvention of popular practices in fields as diverse as education, self-cultivation, religion, ritual, and politics.

The book analyzes the complexity of the Confucian revival within the broader context of emerging challenges to such categories as religion, philosophy, and science that prevailed in modernization narratives throughout the last century. Exploring state cults both in Mainland China and Taiwan, authors Sébastien Billioud and Joël Thoraval compare the interplay between politics and religion on the two shores of the Taiwan strait and attempt to shed light on possible future developments of Confucianism in Chinese society.

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