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The religious ethic and mercantile spirit in early modern China
"Argues that during the late Imperial period, all three main religious strains in China embraced an ethic that everyone should engage in labor as a crucial component to their personal enlightenment and their duty to society. This is what brings together new Chan (Zen in Japanese) Buddhism; new...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Chino |
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New York
Columbia University Press
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Editorial Note
- Editor's Introduction
- Author's Introduction
- Part I: The Inner-Worldly Reorientation of Chinese Religions
- 1. New Chan (Japanese pronunciation, Zen) Buddhism
- 2. New religious Daoism
- Part II: New Developments in the Confucian Ethic
- 3. The rise of new Confucianism and the influence of Chan Buddhism
- 4. Establishing the "world of heaven's principles": the "other world" of new Confucianism
- 5. "Seriousness pervading activity and tranquility": the spiritual temper of inner-worldly engagement
- 6. "Regarding the world as one's responsibility" : the inner-worldly asceticism of new Confucianism
- 7. Similarities and differences between Zhu Xi and Lu Xiangshan : the social significance of the division in new Confucianism
- Part III: The Spiritual Configuration of Chinese Merchants
- 8. Ming and Qing Confucians' view of "securing a livelihood"
- 9. A new theory of the four categories of people : changes in the relationship between scholars and merchants
- 10. Merchants and Confucian learning
- 11. The mercantile ethic
- 12. "The way of business"
- Conclusion.