REL-1020 Lecture 9: Confucianism Notes 2
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Religion in east asia: china: on religion in china the idea of religion in china is problematic, philosophy and religion in china can go together, confucianism, daoism, buddhism. World"s first missionary tradition, buddhism brought to china: folk traditions/popular religion. Confucian in morning, daoism in afternoon, and buddhist at death: china: the middle kingdom/central nation , people"s republic of china. Called middle kingdom/central nation central nation of all of the world (where everything is happening) Called the sons of heaven = the king. Mandarin chinese (spoken by 70% of nation) = mother tongue for most people in china. Prc belief is religion is not helpful. Illegal religions folk religion = superstition (not practical this is illegal: republic of china (taiwan) Freedom of religion: both taiwan and people"s republic of china understand themselves as the beginning of the three traditions, p. r. c. State association of religious affairs (sara: recognizes these 4 religions as legal, 1.
