Temples dedicated to Confucius are found throughout China and
across East Asia, dating back over two thousand years. These sacred
and magnificent sanctuaries hold deep cultural and political
significance. This book brings together studies from Chin-shing
Huang’s decades-long research into Confucius temples that
individually and collectively consider Confucianism as religion.
Huang uses the Confucius temple to explore Confucianism both as one
of China’s “three religions” (with Buddhism and Daoism) and
as a cultural phenomenon, from the early imperial era through the
present day. He argues for viewing Confucius temples as the holy
ground of Confucianism, symbolic sites of sacred space that
represent a point of convergence between political and cultural
power. Their complex histories shed light on the religious nature
and character of Confucianism and its status as official religion
in imperial China. Huang examines topics such as the political and
intellectual elements of Confucian enshrinement, how Confucius
temples were brought into the imperial ritual system from the Tang
dynasty onward, and why modern Chinese largely do not think of
Confucianism as a religion. A nuanced analysis of the question of
Confucianism as religion, Confucianism and Sacred Space offers keen
insights into Confucius temples and their significance in the
intertwined intellectual, political, social, and religious
histories of imperial China.
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