Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1 - Jiaohua: The Confucian revival in China as an educative
project
Chapter 1. Confucian education during the 20th century: A
retrospective outlook
Chapter 2. The new institutionalization of Confucian education
Chapter 3. A modern anti-intellectualism: The body, the child, the
people
Part 2 - Anshen liming or the religious dimension of
Confucianism
Chapter 4. "The varieties of religious experience"
Chapter 5. Questioning modern categories
Chapter 6. The quest for the recognition of Confucian religion
Part 3 - Between rites and politics: Lijiao
Chapter 7. The Confucius cult: Historical retrospective
Chapter 8. Qufu, 2007
Chapter 9. The use and abuse of Confucius
Chapter 10. Between religious ritual and political ceremonial:
Cosmology and national state
Conclusion
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
Sébastien Billioud is Professor of Chinese Studies at University
Paris-Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité and Head of the East Asian
studies department. Based on a cross-disciplinary approach in
anthropology and intellectual history, his research explores the
multi-faceted development of contemporary Confucianism.
Joël Thoraval is Senior Researcher at the Research Center on Modern
and Contemporary China, School for Higher Studies in Social
Sciences (EHESS), Paris. Specializing in social anthropology and
intellectual history, he has also written extensively on
contemporary Chinese philosophy. He has spent nearly 20 years in
Eastern Asia and is the former Head of EHESS's China Center.
"This book will be a valuable addition to the collection of any
reader who wants to understand the Confucian revival of the 2000s
on both the popular and official level." --Ha Yeon Shin, Reading
Religion
"What makes this book particularly valuable is its combination of
nuanced academic discussions with vivid portraits of ordinary
people who are active in this new development [of Confucian
Revival] This is a magnificent major contribution to contemporary
Confucian studies."--Anna Sun, Journal of Chinese Religion
"This is an engaging study of neglected, yet important, aspects of
a much-discussed phenomenon that has thought-provoking implications
for the broader understanding of Chinese politics and religion.
While not the first to debunk claims that Confucianism has been
reduced to a wandering spirit and that the Confucian revival is
state-orchestrated (or state-dominated) and ideologically
motivated, it provides new and convincing evidence from the actual
practices
among the people."--Journal of Religion
"The Sage and the People constitutes an original and essential
contribution to the recent scholarship on the developments of
Confucianism in China since the final phases of the imperial era
this volume provides the reader with an ample repertoire of case
studies that vividly document a moment of important social and
cultural transformation and can serve as an excellent starting
point for future research projects."--Journal of the American
Academy
of Religion
"This book is a major contribution to the knowledge of Confucianism
and its developments in the Chinese world."--L'Homme
"[The] authors have provided us with a compelling and complex
narrative of what it means to be Confucian in contemporary China,
which makes their work an indispensable resource for all in Chinese
studies."--The China Quarterly
"The Sage and the People is a more than welcome addition to the
literature on the New Confucian movement underway in today's China.
Brilliantly combining a deep knowledge of the Confucian
philosophical tradition with anthropological fieldwork in a number
of sites in China, this volume is the first to take Confucianism
outside of a purely intellectual context and to provide a
comprehensive description of the shape and extent of the Confucian
revival
among the Chinese people." --David Ownby, Director of the Center of
East Asian Studies and Professor of History, University of
Montreal
"Thanks to its richness and its detailed descriptions (supported by
a large number of photos taken in situ), as well as the pertinence
of its insightful and lucid analyses, this erudite but accessible
work is invaluable for any reader concerned with the attitudes
currently prevalent in the 'Chinese world.'" --China
Perspectives
"[Billioud's and Thoraval's] multi-pronged approach offers the
reader a nuancedand comprehensive understanding of rituals and
other practices that otherwise have mainly
drawn journalistic attention or narrower scholarly treatment...
Their insightful book is an important contribution."--Pacific
Affairs
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