A Flexible Indeterminate Theory of Religion: Thinking through Chinese Religious Phenomena

This essay explores a few of the reasons for the failure of Western theories to capture Chinese religious experiences. It will include Durkheim's insight that "The sacred ... is society in disguised form" and variants of secularization theories in contrast to Confucian ones, especiall...

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Main Author: Woo, Tak-ling Terry (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2019]
In: Religions
Year: 2019, Volume: 10, Issue: 7, Pages: 1-20
Further subjects:B Secularization
B Chinese religion
B sociology of religion
B Durkheim
B Xunzi
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