New Approaches to Teaching Early Confucianism

Knapp, Keith N.

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“…In our society, which has done its best to eliminate rituals and mask hierarchy, I could not comprehend Confucianism's message, much less see why it would attract anyone. (Knapp 1999)…”

Section: Teaching Confucianism In the South: Advantagesmentioning

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The Sage and the South: Teaching Confucianism in Dixie

Richey

2008

Teaching Theology & Religion

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White and African-American students in the American South are able to meet and learn from Confucianism on its own terms much more readily than their peers elsewhere. This is because of their tendency to respect authority, participate in intergenerational ritual performances (especially those concerned with manners, meals, and mortuary practices), and judge the present in terms of the past (especially the U.S. Civil War). This is true despite the incompatibility that many southern students sense between Confucianism and their own religious doctrines. Instead, southern students' grasp of Confucianism rests on the grounds of lived religious experience. When southern students learn to see in Confucianism a set of beliefs, practices, and experiences that, in some ways, mirror their own, they are empowered to identify the tradition as "religious" in a way that renders "religion" a descriptive category of comparison rather than a limiting category of unique identity.

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“…In our society, which has done its best to eliminate rituals and mask hierarchy, I could not comprehend Confucianism's message, much less see why it would attract anyone. (Knapp 1999)…”

Section: Teaching Confucianism In the South: Advantagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Sage and the South: Teaching Confucianism in Dixie

Richey

2008

Teaching Theology & Religion

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Learning Confucianism through Filial Sons, Loyal Retainers, and Chaste Wives

Richey¹

2008

Teaching Confucianism

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This chapter provides instructors with a means of introducing an alternate and more popular side of Confucianism: stories and images of historical men and women whose actions embodied the Ru teachings. These figures are usually noted for, in the case of men, their filiality or loyalty, and in the case of women, their chastity. Instead of presenting the tradition as merely a system of ideas, this approach indicates that for most Chinese Confucian values were not just intellectual notions, but forms of behavior that could and had to be embodied by its practitioners. Instead of merely plodding through dry texts, through these materials, students interact with the tradition by reading arresting and strange accounts and looking at vivid and telling images. Finally, instead of merely perusing the books read by the elite, these tools of propaganda furnish a sense of how the great majority of premodern Chinese understood and viewed the Confucian tradition.

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New Approaches to Teaching Early Confucianism

Abstract: Teachers are often tempted to present early Confucianism as an abstract ethical philosophy whose wisdom stands outside of time and space.

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The Sage and the South: Teaching Confucianism in Dixie

The Sage and the South: Teaching Confucianism in Dixie

Learning Confucianism through Filial Sons, Loyal Retainers, and Chaste Wives

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