Chinese Religions
Selected Handouts/Readings
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Practicing Taijiquan
in the outer garden |
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General:
- Wade-Giles - Pinyin conversion tables:
- University of Wisconsin
- Duke University (plus Zhuyin Fuhao, a Taiwanese invention)
- Chart of East Asian history
- Traditional/Mythic history
- Historical periods
- Map of China
- Excerpt from "Chinese Religion: An Overview" (Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd ed.)
Confucianism: - The 13 Scriptures (Classics)
- Analects questions and key terms
- Neo-Confucian terms
Daoism: - Meanings of Dao in Laozi
- Questions for Zhuangzi
- Periods of Daoist History
Cosmology and popular religion:
A dangki (spirit-medium) flailing himself at a temple festival in Taiwan. - Yin-yang, the Five Phases (wu-xing), and the Yijing
- Hexagrams of the Yijing
- Hexagrams and methods of consulting
- Joseph Needham on some fundamental principles of Chinese thought
- The 10 Stem / 12 Branch numbering system
- Some popular gods
- Buddhist terms
- New Buddhist Schools in China
- Mahayana Buddhism
- Chan Buddhism
Assignments: - Sample paper topics
Bibliographies: - Confucianism | Confucian religiosity
- Women in Chinese History
- Daoism
- Popular religion
- Feng-shui (geomancy)
- Chinese Judaism
- Christianity in China
- Islam in China
Buddhism:
Edit date: 5/22/16
