RELG 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Derk Bodde, Qin Dynasty, Christianity In Korea
16 Apr 2016
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South-east asia: bangladesh, myanmar, lao, thailand, cambodia, vietnam, malaysia, indonesia archipelago. Features missing from asian religions: a god, founder, sacred text, church, doctrine, transcendent element. Chrisianity as the ideal religion; other religions as comparaive religions (i. e. studied in comparison with. Part i: myth and history in ancient china. Legiimately describes worldview despite not being factual reality. History is writen by the victors. (i. e. history is akin to mythology?: myth vs. history. The chinese concepion of history: 5000 years , mandate of heaven: history tells a moral story. The telling of history as a moral act; how morality plays out in historical events. Sources of chinese tradiion, pdf: culture heroes (three sovereigns) 2852 bce: fuxi (god) invents wriing, ishing, trapping; n wa (sister, wife, goddess omited in oicial records: sage kings (five emperors) 2205 bce: y , virtuous founder of the dynasty: myth of dynasies :
