20. Heaven Can Wait: Ritual and Religion in Confucianism
Were Confucian ideas about Heaven, ritual, and fate driven by a religious attitude, or a naturalistic one?
Themes:
• E. Cline, “Religious Thought and Practice in the Analects,” in A. Olberding (ed.), Dao Companion to the Analects (Dordrecht: 2014), 259-91.
• R. Eno, The Confucian Creation of Heaven: Philosophy and the Defense of Ritual Mastery (Albany: 1990).
• P.J. Ivanhoe, “Heaven as a Source of Ethical Warrant in Early Confucianism,” Dao 6 (2007), 211–20.
• T.C. Kline III and J. Tiwald (eds), Ritual and Religion in the Xunzi (Albany: 2014).
• J. Lee, Xunzi and Early Chinese Naturalism (Albany: 2005).
• E. Machle, Nature and Heaven in the Xunzi: A Study of the Tian Lun (Albany: 1993).
• F. Perkins, Heaven and Earth are not Humane: The Problem of Evil in Classical Chinese Philosophy (Bloomington: 2014).
• M.J. Puett, To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China (Cambridge MA: 2002).
• W. Sung, “Ritual in the Xunzi: A Change of the Heart/Mind,” Sophia 51 (2012), 211-26.
• S.H. Tan, “Does Xunzi’s Ethics of Ritual Need a Metaphysics?” Journal of Religious Philosophy 75 (2016), 109-19.
• T. Weiming, Centrality and Commonality: an Essay on Confucian Religiousness (Albany: 1988).
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