REL-2350 Lecture 4: Confucianism
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Thesis: turning it into a thing, concealing other possibilities. Western: belief is a key feature; asian: become it, don"t just believe it. More focused on practice a path that teaches you how to become it. Five points of the article: there is no corresponding term: japan was the first to come up with a corresponding term. Shu = sect & gyo = teachings; tweaked the term to translate because they had to sign a treatise: the questions we ask are limited by our own constructs. What about priesthood? there"s tons and not all of them are monastic. Christianity: there is no equivalent term for religion , categorizing leads to illusions that the category is universal and natural, but it is not, there are analogous terms but we must find them. Religions do not exist as things in the world. Process of elimination and inclusion throughout history. Each one of those things has a history behind it that is not religious.
