Chinese Confucianism and Daoism

A Companion to Philosophy of Religion: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 23-33

  Hansen, Chad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Absence of theology and pneumatology parallels a lack of soteriology and eschatology; Anthropological division of religions into prophetic, ritualistic, and mystical justifying inclusion of Chinese schools among religions; Chinese Confucianism and Daoism; Chinese philosophical thought for philosophy of religion raising familiar philosophy of religion problems; Popular Confucian and Daoist religious practices posing no special classification problems; Problem of definition linking up with interpretative controversies; Problem of fatalism, parallels the problem of evil; Problems of definition doubting that Daoism and Confucianism are religions; Problems of interpretation; Typical Indo European theology having doctrines of pneumatology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886111835     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444320152.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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