Confucianism, a Habit of the Heart - Bellah, Civil Religion, and East Asia

Employs Robert Bellah's notion of civil religion to explore East Asia's Confucian revival.

About the author

Philip J. Ivanhoe is Chair Professor of East Asian and Comparative Philosophy and Religion at City University of Hong Kong. His many books include Mortality in Traditional Chinese Thought (coedited with Amy Olberding); Taking Confucian Ethics Seriously: Contemporary Theories and Applications (coedited with Kam-por Yu and Julia Tao); Religious and Philosophical Aspects of the Laozi (coedited with Mark Csikszentmihalyi); and Essays on Skepticism, Relativism, and Ethics in the Zhuangzi (coedited with Paul Kjellberg), all published by SUNY Press. Sungmoon Kim is Professor of Political Theory at City University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Confucian Democracy in East Asia: Theory and Practice and the editor of Confucianism, Law, and Democracy in Contemporary Korea.

Product details

• Authors: Philip J. (EDT)/ Kim Ivanhoe
• Assisted by: Philip J Ivanhoe (Editor), Philip J. Ivanhoe (Editor), Ivanhoe Philip J. (Editor), Sungmoon Kim (Editor), Kim Sungmoon (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2017
• EAN: 9781438460123
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-6012-3
• No. of pages: 246
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, HISTORY / Asia / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, RELIGION / Confucianism, Social and cultural history, East Asia, Far East, Asian History, Religious groups: social & cultural aspects, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Confucianism