Meaning and Controversy within Chin - E-book

eBook

Meaning And Controversy Within Chinese Ancestor Religion - ENG

Paulin Batairwa Kubuya

eBook

$1,780.00

Disponible

Información adicional
Sinopsis

ISBN:	9783319705248
Formato:	ePub
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Springer Nature
Tema:	Religión
Subtema:	Religión Comparada
Año de publicación:	2018-01-25

Chinese practices related to ancestors have long been the subject of conflicting interpretations. These practices are rooted in the lived experience of practitioners, and therefore need to be considered as embodied expressions of the quest for existential meaning. For practitioners, the achievement of existential meaning requires the inclusion, implication, and mediation of the ancestors. When gestures in ancestor rites are analyzed from this perspective it is possible to appreciate their essence as constitutive of â€œancestor religion.â€? This book uses an inquisitive method that investigates the discrepancies between foreign and local explanations, and proposes another hermeneutic framework for ancestor related praxes.Â Â

eBooks