Ritual and the Moral Life: Reclaiming the Tradition

by David Solomon

Book Overview

In the twentieth century, in both China and the West, ritual became marginalized in the face of the growth of secularism and individualism. In China, Confucianism and its essentially ritualistic comportment to the world were vigorously suppressed during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) under Mao Zedong. But de-ritualization already took place as a result of the Chinese Revolution of 1911 under Sun Yat-Sen. In the West, while the process of de-ritualization...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 940079312X
• ISBN13: 9789400793125
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"