Ritual Learning is a key driver in the cultural dominance of Confucianism. In early China, Confucian officials derive political influence from the sub-discipline of ritual. Imperial regimes establish legitimacy through their state religion, headed by sacrifices to ancestors and to deities of Heaven and Earth. Ritual Learning allows Confucian-educated officials to assert control over these cults, and reshape dynastic legitimacy according to their own design, claimed to derive from the sage kings of antiquity. Confucianism is not just a philosophical and intellectual tradition. Through its ritual expertise, it has cultural and political power, like that of a religion, allowing it to perpetuate itself successfully over time, even in contemporary China.
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"As thorough as it is well reasoned, this volume would be invaluable to those with an interest in Confucianism or even the concept of ritual." -
Joseph Chadwin, Religious Studies Review, 47/4 (2021).
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978-90-04-46191-8 (9789004461918)
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Robert L. Chard, PhD (1990, University of California, Berkeley) is University Lecturer/Associate Professor in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Anne's College. He has published on the visible culture of Confucianism in China and Japan.
Contents
Preface
1 Introduction
?1?A Prologue - The Case of Shusun Tong ???
?2?Ritual and Ritual Learning
2 The Golden Age of Ritual: The World of the Zuo zhuan, and the Analects (Lun yu) on Confucius
?1?The Western Zhou
?2?The Spring and Autumn Period and the World of the Zuo zhuan
?3?Ritual Learning in the Lun yu (Analects)
3 The Ritual Culture of the Ru - Ritual Learning in the Warring States and Early Han
?1?The Ru ("Confucians")
?2?Pre-Han Precursors of the Ritual Canon Li ?
?3?Pre-Han Antecedents of the Li ji ??
?4?Non-textual Masters of li - Shusun Tong ??? and His Successors in the Early Han Court
4 The "Victory" of Ritual Learning - Western Han
?1?Early Western Han - Emperors Wen and Jing (180-141 BCE)
?2?Emperor Wu (141-87 BCE)
?3?Texts on Ritual Learning
?4?Old vs New - Ritual Learning in Late Western Han
5 Conclusion and Final Arguments
Bibliography
Index
