Ritual and the Moral Life Reclaiming the Tradition /

In the twentieth century, in both China and the West, ritual became marginalized in the face of the growth of secularism and individualism. In China, Confucianism and its essentially ritualistic comportment to the world were vigorously suppressed during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) under Mao...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Solomon, David (Editor), Fan, Ruiping (Editor), Lo, Ping-cheung (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
Series:Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture, 21
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Table of Contents:
  • I.          Ritual, Virtue, and the Pursuit of the Holy
  •  Ritual as the Creation of Social Reality  - Ana Iltis
  • Ritual, Virtue, and Human Flourishing - H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr..-Ritual as Education Concerning Social Space and Time - Mark Cherry
  • Why the West Spurns Medical Ritual Griffin Trotter
  • II.        Confucian Insights: Ritual as the Fabric of the Moral Community
  • Ritual: Meaning and Recognition - Tangjia Wang
  • An Analysis of the Consciousness of Filial Piety Through the Time Horizon  Xianglong Zhang
  • Confucian Rites of Passage: A Comparative Analysis of Zhu Xi’s Family Rituals -  Ping-cheung Lo
  • Confucian Ritualization: How and Why - Ruiping Fan
  • III.       Ritual and Tradition as Challenge to Modernity.-Cultural and Philosophical Resistance to Ritual in the Modern World - David Solomon.- In Favour of the Disadvantaged: Ritual in Xunzi and the Modern World - Daniel Bell
  • Ritual, Harmony and Peace and Order - Jonathan Chan
  • IV        The Traditional Ritual Project
  • Ritual, Society and Community - George Khushf.-  Christian and Confucian Cultural Renewal: The Role of Ritual - Corinna Delkeskamp-Hayes.