Meaning and controversy within Chinese ancestor religion / Paulin Batairwa Kubuya.
2018
BL467 .B38 2018
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Title
Meaning and controversy within Chinese ancestor religion / Paulin Batairwa Kubuya.
ISBN
9783319705248 (electronic book)
3319705245 (electronic book)
9783319705231
3319705237
3319705245 (electronic book)
9783319705231
3319705237
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-70524-8 doi
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BL467 .B38 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
291.213
Summary
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 analysed from this perspective it is possible to appreciate their essence as constitutive of 'ancestor religion'. This book uses an inquisitive method that investigates the discrepancies between foreign and local explanations, and proposes another hermeneutic framework for ancestor related praxes.
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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 analysed from this perspective it is possible to appreciate their essence as constitutive of 'ancestor religion'. This book uses an inquisitive method that investigates the discrepancies between foreign and local explanations, and proposes another hermeneutic framework for ancestor related praxes.
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Asian Christianity in the diaspora.
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