儒家思想与神圣空间
Confucianism and Sacred Space
The Confucius Temple from Imperial China to Today
在整个中国及整个东亚皆可见孔庙，距今已有两千多年的历史。这些神圣而宏伟的孔庙具有深远的文化和政治意义。
这本书汇集了黄进兴院士数十年来对孔庙的研究，这些孔庙个别和整体地将儒家思想视为宗教。黄进兴院士利用孔庙探索儒学，从早期帝王时代到今天，儒学既是中国“三教”（佛教和道教）之一，也是一种文化现象。他主张将孔庙视为儒家思想的圣地，即代表政治和文化权力交汇点的神圣空间的象征性场所。孔庙复杂的历史揭示了儒学的宗教性质和特点，以及儒学在中国帝国的官方宗教地位。黄进兴院士探讨了一些话题，如儒家祭祀的政治和知识因素，孔庙是如何从唐代开始被纳入帝王礼制的，以及为什么现代中国人基本上不把儒家视为一种宗教。
本书细致入微地分析了儒学作为宗教的问题，有助于深入了解孔庙及其在中国错综复杂的知识史、政治史、社会史和宗教史中的意义。
Temples dedicated to Confucius are found throughout China and across East Asia, dating back over two thousand years. These sacred and magnificent sanctuaries hold deep cultural and political significance.
This book brings together studies from Chin-shing Huang’s decades-long research into Confucius temples that individually and collectively consider Confucianism as religion. Huang uses the Confucius temple to explore Confucianism both as one of China’s “three religions” (with Buddhism and Daoism) and as a cultural phenomenon, from the early imperial era through the present day. He argues for viewing Confucius temples as the holy ground of Confucianism, symbolic sites of sacred space that represent a point of convergence between political and cultural power. Their complex histories shed light on the religious nature and character of Confucianism and its status as official religion in imperial China. Huang examines topics such as the political and intellectual elements of Confucian enshrinement, how Confucius temples were brought into the imperial ritual system from the Tang dynasty onward, and why modern Chinese largely do not think of Confucianism as a religion.
A nuanced analysis of the question of Confucianism as religion, Confucianism and Sacred Space offers keen insights into Confucius temples and their significance in the intertwined intellectual, political, social, and religious histories of imperial China.
黄进兴院士于1983年获得美国哈佛大学博士，专长为中国思想史及宗教文化史、史学理论，以孔庙研究著称；又对中、西史学理论与史学史特有兴趣，以上领域均略有著述。
Chin-shing Huang is distinguished research fellow and vice president of Academia Sinica in Taiwan. His books in English include Philosophy, Philology, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century China: Li Fu and the Lu-Wang School Under the Ch’ing (1995) and Business as a Vocation: The Autobiography of Wu Ho-su (2002).
Preface
Introduction. The Confucius Temple as a Ritual System: Manifestations of Power, Belief, and Legitimacy in Traditional China
1. Expanding the Symbolic Meaning and Function of the Rites: The Evolution of Confucius Temples in Imperial China
2. Confucianism as a Religion: A Comparative Study of Traditional Chinese Religions
3. Sages and Saints: A Comparative Study of Canonization in Confucianism and Christianity
4. The Cultural Politics of Autocracy: The Confucius Temple and Ming Despotism, 1368–1530
5. Xunzi: The Confucius Temple’s Absentee
6. The Disenchantment with Confucianism in Modern China
7. The Lonely Confucius Temples Across the Taiwan Straits: The Difficult Transformation of Modern China’s Traditional Culture
Conclusion: Reflections on My Study of Confucianism as a Religion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
This is a valuable translation of Chin-shing Huang's decades-long and learned study of Confucianism as a comprehensive historical tradition. Among his many insights, a most significant one is that, notwithstanding later denials, Confucianism cannot be understood unless seen in its religious dimension—albeit an elite and statist one.Prasenjit Duara, author of The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future
Cutting through centuries of misguided theological and political debate, one of the world’s most eminent historians of China charts the changing cultural, political, and institutional forces at work in Confucianism as a vibrant ritual system.Stephen F. Teiser, coeditor of Readings of the Platform Sūtra
Chin-shing Huang is one of the most distinguished and discerning scholars in Confucian studies today. His extensive account of Confucian temples as a ritual system in imperial and modern China is a magnificent contribution to the field. Its vast temporal range and its keen analysis of specific historical episodes illuminate the crucial elements that make Confucian temples essential to Chinese religious, cultural, and political life.Anna Sun, author of Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities
Confucianism and Sacred Space brings to light the legacy of Chin-shing Huang, a leading scholar of Confucianism and Confucian temples, whose work has not received the attention it deserves in Western scholarship.James Flath, author of Traces of the Sage: Monument, Materiality, and the First Temple of Confucius
Huang knows the history and culture of Confucius temples best and makes a case for regarding Confucianism as a religion, instead of just a philosophy. Underscoring that Confucianism was a state religion for ruling male elites, he counters a rising trend to portray it as a popular religion among the masses.Hoyt Cleveland Tillman, coauthor of Cultural Authority and Political Culture in China: Exploring Issues with the Zhongyong and the Daotong During the Song, Jin, and Yuan Dynasties
出版者：哥伦比亚大学出版社 （Columbia University Press）
时间：2020年12月1日
语言： 英语 （English）
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