A Comprehensive History of Religion in China (Revised Edition) (Volume 1 and 2)

Author: Mou Zhongjian
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Publish Date: 2003-02-01
Features: A Comprehensive History of Chinese Religion fully implements this approach, taking "patrilineal traditional religion" as the main axis for understanding Chinese religion and using it to address its relationship with Confucianism and Taoism, as well as its interactions with foreign religions like Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam. It is precisely the scientific spirit embodied by this concept that enables a more scientific understanding of the overall history of Chinese religion, giving the book its unique characteristics. I believe that all readers of this book will, like me, gain a fresh, deeper, and more historically accurate understanding of Chinese religious history through its arguments. Of course, the creative contributions of this book are not limited to this alone. Due to space constraints, I must stop here for now. The book extensively incorporates the achievements of domestic and international religious studies over the past few decades, employing new perspectives and methodologies to comprehensively and deeply explore the history of Chinese religion, constructing a vast, rigorously structured, clearly layered, and logically coherent comprehensive history of Chinese religion. The book divides the history of Chinese religion into six stages and summarizes its six major characteristics.