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When trying to understand Chinese culture historically and currently, we are forced to rely on concepts that are fundamentally inextricably linked to the history of Western civilization. Concepts such as 'religion' and 'philosophy' have no direct counterpart in the history of Chinese culture. Can these topics be approached in a way that respects the Chinese context and the fundamental categories that it has historically embodied?
With this book, Klaus Bo Nielsen's project is to paint on such a large canvas that there is room for the 'Chinese angle'. A historically organized presentation of the Chinese religions, from ancient times to the present day, is placed in a larger context of cosmology, philosophy of life and thought, in order to better accommodate the Chinese culture's own fundamental categories and complexity.
Beginning with a presentation of Chinese cosmology and archaic religion, the book provides a thorough presentation of the three major 'schools' in the history of Chinese culture: Confucianism, Daoism (Taoism) and Buddhism. But is it 'philosophy' or 'religion'? Both; both Confucianism and Daoism can be likened to large river systems, where the flow sometimes splits into multiple courses and then merges again. These traditions have given rise both to a way of thinking that is closest to the Western category of 'philosophy' and to ideas that are more akin to 'religion'.
Chinese Religion and Philosophy of Life is structured in a way that leaves plenty of room for this complexity. The book concludes with a presentation of modern folk religion as it is practiced today.
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