Paulin Batairwa Kubuya

Meaning and Controversy within Chinese Ancestor Religion

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Chinese practices related to ancestors have long been the subject of conflicting interpretations. These practices are rooted in the lived experience of practitioners, and therefore need be considered as embodied expressions of the quest for existential meaning. For practitioners, the achievement of existential meaning requires the inclusion, implication, and mediation of the ancestors. When gestures in ancestor rites are analyzed from this perspective it is possible to appreciate their essence as constitutive of ancestor religion. This book uses an inquisitive method that investigates the discrepancies between foreign and local explanations,… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-3-319-88954-2
EAN: 9783319889542
Produktnummer: 31771953
Verlag: Springer Nature EN
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 232 S.
Masse: 1 Ex.; H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm 323 g
Auflage: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Abbildungen: Previously published in hardcover; schwarz-weiss Illustrationen
Gewicht: 323
Sonstiges: Research

Über den Autor

Paulin Batairwa Kubuya is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Fu Jen Catholic University and Executive Secretary of Taiwan Regional Bishops' Conference-Commissions for Interreligious Dialogue and Ecumenism.