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RELI 360

Religions of China

3 credits · Undergraduate

Fall 2016 (cover year)

Topics

  • Early Chinese religion
  • Zhou cosmology and state cults
  • Confucianism
  • Early and religious Daoism
  • Daoist schools and practices
  • Modern Daoism
  • Chinese Buddhism
  • Popular religion

Readings

  • Mario Poceski, Introducing Chinese Religions. Routledge. ISBN 9780415434065.
    Required
  • Livia Kohn, Introducing Daoism. Routledge. ISBN 9780415439985.
    Required
  • Xinzhong Yao, An Introduction to Confucianism. Cambridge University Press, 2000. ISBN 0521644305.
    Required
  • Deborah Sommer (ed.), Chinese Religion: An Anthology of Sources. Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN 0195088956.
    Recommended / optional / reference
  • Stephen Bokenkamp, “Sources of the Ling-pao Scriptures,” in Michel Strickmann (ed.), Tantric and Taoist Studies, volume 2 (1983), pp. 434–486.
    Listed reading
  • Stephen Bokenkamp, “Lu Xiujing, Buddhism, and the First Daoist Canon,” Culture and Power in the Reconstitution of the Chinese Realm, 200–600. Harvard University Press, 2001, pp. 181–199.
    Listed reading
  • David N. Keightley, “The Religious Commitment: Shang Theology and the Genesis of Chinese Political Culture,” History of Religions 17.3/4 (1978), pp. 211–225.
    Listed reading
  • Daniel L. Overmyer et al., “Chinese Religions—The State of the Field: Part I: Early Religious Traditions,” Journal of Asian Studies 54.1 (1995), pp. 124–160.
    Listed reading
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