Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Characterizing Religious Experience
- Part II Religious Experience in Traditional Monotheism
- Part III Religious Experience Outside Traditional Monotheism
- 7 Religious Experience in Ancient Confucianism and Daoism
- 8 Religious Experience in Buddhism
- 9 Rāmānuja’s Eleventh Century Hindu Theology of Religious Experience
- Part IV Prominent Themes and Challenges
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- References
7 - Religious Experience in Ancient Confucianism and Daoism
from Part III - Religious Experience Outside Traditional Monotheism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 June 2020
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Characterizing Religious Experience
- Part II Religious Experience in Traditional Monotheism
- Part III Religious Experience Outside Traditional Monotheism
- 7 Religious Experience in Ancient Confucianism and Daoism
- 8 Religious Experience in Buddhism
- 9 Rāmānuja’s Eleventh Century Hindu Theology of Religious Experience
- Part IV Prominent Themes and Challenges
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- References
Summary
Focusing on Confucianism and Daoism, Yao suggests that religious experience in these Chinese traditions falls into two broad categories: the human-centered and the transcendent-centered. Even so, he finds that the traditions agree in their tending to include an ultimate concern about human life and human destiny reflected in personal, familiar, and social matters, and that they typically associate their religious experiences with practices that, via self-cultivation, nourish a good human life.
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