Is Confucianism a religion? If so, why do most Chinese think it isn\'t? From ancient Confucian temples, to nineteenth-century archives, to the testimony of people interviewed by the author throughout China over a period of more than a decade, this book traces the birth and growth of the idea of Confucianism as a World religion.
The book begins at Oxford, in the late nineteenth century, when Friedrich Max M ller and James Legge classified Confucianism as a World religion in the ne.
Is Confucianism a religion? If so, why do most Chinese think it isn\'t? From ancient Confucian temples, to nineteenth-century archives, to the testimony of people interviewed by the author throughout China over a period of more than a decade, this book traces the birth and growth of the idea of Confucianism as a World religion