RELI 2732 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Religion In China, Orthopraxy, Feng Shui
1 Jun 2020
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Concern with the long term fate of the person, meaning the ongoing welfare of the person after. That although there were ideas of an end of time and final eternal salvation, these were never as. Main religious issue is the health and well-being of the person in this life and beyond this life. Boundaries between this life and death are porous life and death form a continuum not a break . Non-exclusivity: you can be part of all religions at once, not what you believe, rather what you do. If people fulfill their obligation to make offerings to the village god and worship him, and he doesn"t fulfill his duty of protecting them, then there"s no point in continuing the relationship because it is a reciprocal one. Themes in chinese religion (4) just as the family has an ancestor, the dead are under the high ancestor.
