To Be or Not to Be a Confucian: Explicit and Implicit Religious Identities in the Global Twenty-First Century
This chapter treats transnational Confucianism as a case study of religious identity in the 21st century. Confucianism has long had a strong hold in East Asia and Southeast Asia. Today, with global mobility, there are further developments of Confucianism in various regions of the world. However, sur...
| Published in: | Annual review of the sociology of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2020]
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| In: |
Annual review of the sociology of religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Confucianism
/ Transnationaization
/ Religious identity
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AX Inter-religious relations BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism KBM Asia |
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| Summary: | This chapter treats transnational Confucianism as a case study of religious identity in the 21st century. Confucianism has long had a strong hold in East Asia and Southeast Asia. Today, with global mobility, there are further developments of Confucianism in various regions of the world. However, survey data show consistently that very few people identify themselves as Confucians. The case of global Confucianism raises the sociological question of religious identity: What factors contribute to the dearth of self-avowed religious identifications in some societies, and to the proliferation of such identifications in others? I suggest that contemporary Confucianism is a case of the potential transformation of implicit religious identity into explicit religious identity under new social and political conditions of transnational religious practice. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Annual review of the sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004443327_013 |