Imagining Boundaries
(June 1999)
Changing Confucian Doctrines, Texts, and Hermeneutics Kai-wing Chow - Editor On-cho Ng - Editor John B. Henderson - Editor
Explores the shifting terrain of Confucianism in Chinese history.
Imagining Boundaries explores the mapping of the intellectual tradition of Confucianism in Chinese history. The authors show that the Confucian tradition is not a neatly packaged organic whole in which the constitutive parts fall naturally into place, but rather that it displays the ruptures of all cultural constructions. Accordingly, Confucianism ...(Read More)
Presents the first systematic and cross-cultural examination of ideas of orthodoxy and heresy in a group of major religious traditions.
This book presents the first systematic and cross-cultural exploration of ideas of heresy, as well as orthodoxy, in a group of major religious traditions, including Neo-Confucianism, Sunni Islam, rabbinic Judaism, and early Christianity. It shows how authorities in all four of these tra...(Read More)
