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Divine Justice - Religion And The Development Of Chinese Legal Culture (Paperback, New)
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Divine Justice - Religion And The Development Of Chinese Legal Culture (Paperback, New)
Series: Academia Sinica on East Asia
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This book considers the ways in which religious beliefs and
practices have contributed to the formation of Chinese legal
culture. It does so by describing two forms of overlap between
religion and the law: the ideology of justice and the performance
of judicial rituals. One of the most important conceptual
underpinnings of the Chinese ideology of justice is the belief in
the inevitability of retribution. Similar values permeate Chinese
religious traditions, all of which contend that justice will
prevail despite corruption and incompetence among judicial
officials in this world and even the underworld, with all
wrongdoers eventually suffering some form of punishment. The second
form of overlap between religion and the law may be found in the
realm of practice, and involves instances when men and women
perform judicial rituals like oaths, chicken-beheadings, and
underworld indictments in order to enhance the legitimacy of their
positions, deal with cases of perceived injustice, and resolve
disputes. These rites coexist with other forms of legal practice,
including private mediation and the courts, comprising a
wide-ranging spectrum of practices Divine Justice will be of
enormous interest to scholars of the Chinese legal system and the
development of Chinese culture and society more generally.
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