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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Helle, Horst J

Titel

Daoism: China’s Native Religion

Ist Teil von

• China: Promise or Threat?, 2017, Vol.96, p.71-81

Ort / Verlag

United States: BRILL

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• China, the giant country, consists of numerous cultural subgroups and ethnic minorities, many of whom carry on traditions of various religions of primarily local significance. Among those are the folk religions of many of the country people, observing a local ritual of ancestor worship without following intellectualized religious teachings. There are, in addition, millions of followers of world religions, also Christians and Muslims who, as we have seen above, are counted among the members of the Chinese people as well. But what is so special about Daoism? In this section I will disregard the diversity of religious orientations and instead