Ritual and the Moral Life Reclaiming the Tradition /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Solomon, David (Editor), Fan, Ruiping (Editor), Lo, Ping-cheung (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Series: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture, 21
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Religion.; Ethics.; Religion > Philosophy.; Philosophy, Asian.; Non-Western Philosophy.; Philosophy of Religion.; Religious Studies, general.

In the twentieth century, in both China and the West, ritual became marginalized in the face of the growth of secularism and individualism. In China, Confucianism and its essentially ritualistic comportment to the world were vigorously suppressed during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) under Mao...