Book
Religion of the Chinese people
Harper and Row • New York • Published In 1975 • Pages: viii, 200
By: Granet, Marcel, Freedman, Maurice.
Abstract
This monograph focuses on Chinese religion according to the classic Confucian texts and commentaries. The author spent two years in Beijing (1919-1921) doing archival work; however, any personal observations were only the source of a few anecdotes. The author is primarily interested in the transformation of religion between Feudal and Imperial times and writes mostly about Confucianism, the literati, and the Imperial cults and some on Buddhism and Taoism. All three religions comprise the edifice of Chinese religion. Freedman's translation includes extensive footnotes drawing on Granet's other published works.
- Subjects
- Ethics
- Form and rules of government
- Chief executive
- Cult of the dead
- Religious beliefs
- Animism
- Ethnogeography
- culture
- Han Chinese
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- East Asia
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Sociologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard; 2021
- Field Date
- not applicable
- Coverage Date
- 1-1919
- Coverage Place
- People's Republic of China; China; Beijing, China
- Notes
- Marcel Granet ; translated, edited, and with an introd. by Maurice Freedman
- Translation of La religion des Chinois
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-192) and index
- LCCN
- 74033106
- LCSH
- Cults--China
- China--Religion