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Confucian Spirituality I, Vol. 1 »

Authors: Tu Weiming
ISBN-13: 9780824521110, ISBN-10: 0824521110
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Crossroad Publishing Company
Date Published: July 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

The most important work on Confucian religion, ethics, and spirituality ever to appear.

	Preface to the Series
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Individualism and Holism in Chinese Tradition: The Religious Cultural Context	39
2	The Ethical and the Meta-Ethical in Chinese High Cultural Thought	56
3	Between the Heavenly and the Human	62
4	What Is Confucian Spirituality?	81
5	Affectivity in Classical Confucian Tradition	96
6	Classical Chinese Views of Reality and Divinity	113
7	Virtues and Religious Virtues in the Confucian Tradition	134
8	Li and the A-theistic Religiousness of Classical Confucianism	165
9	Is There a Universal Path of Spiritual Progress in the Texts of Early Confucianism?	183
10	Ritual and Sacrifice in Early Confucianism: Contacts with the Spirit World	197
11	Death and Dying in the Analects	220
12	Practicality and Spirituality in the Mencius	233
13	The Ethical and the Religious Dimensions of Li	252
14	Xunzi's Piety	287
15	The Way of the Unadorned King: The Classical Confucian Spirituality of Dong Zhongshu	304
16	Determining the Position of Heaven and Earth: Debates over State Sacrifices in the Western Han Dynasty	318
	Glossary	335
	General Bibliography	339
	Contributors	365
	Photographic Credits	369
	Index	371