Meaning and Controversy within Chinese Ancestor Religion
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,…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-319-70523-1
- EAN: 9783319705231
- Produktnummer: 24356322
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 232 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B15.3 cm x D1.8 cm 433 g
- Abbildungen: Book; 3 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, Bibliographie
- Gewicht: 433
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.
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