101 Questions And Answers On Confucianism Daoism And Shinto Renard by Renard, John, 1944- instant download after payment.

xii, 243 pages : 21 cm, Answers questions concerning the origins, development, doctrines and practices, ethics, spirituality, and other aspects of three major East Asian belief systems, Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-232) and index, [pt.] 1. Beginnings and early sources -- 1. Who was Confucius and what do traditional accounts tell us about his life? -- 2. What are the origins of \"Confucianism\"? Who were the Literati? -- 3. How is the Chinese Imperial Tradition (CIT) related to \"Confucianism\"? -- 4. What were the earliest Confucian sacred texts? Has Confucian tradition included any other sacred texts in its canon? -- 5. Who was Laozi, and what was his connection with the origins of religious Daoism and its scriptures? -- 6. What is religious Daoism and how does it differ from \"Chinese Community Traditions\" (CCT)? -- 7. Were there other important Daoist scriptures? And did an official canon of Daoist sacred texts ever develop? -- 8. What is Shinto and what are its origins? -- 9. What are the earliest important Shinto sacred texts? -- 10. Were Shinto's sacred texts ever gathered into a formal scriptural canon? -- 11. Are there important \"mythic\" elements in these traditions? -- 12. Who are some of the principal Shinto deities, apart from those mentioned in the primal myth?, [pt.] 2. Development and spread -- 13. If Confucius and Laozi were not considered divine early on, how did they come to assume so lofty a stature? -- 14. What chief deities and other important sacred personages eventually came to form the Daoist pantheon? -- 15. How have Daoist/CCT history and myth come together in the stories of the Jade Emperor, Guandi, and the Yellow Emperor? -- 16. What was the relationship between religious ritual and the power of the Chinese imperial court? -- 17. Have the Chinese traditions ever been intimately identified with specific political regimes, the way Shinto became Japan's \"national\" creed? -- 18. Is there a distinctively Confucian…