Confucian marxism : : a reflection on religion and global justice / / by Weigang Chen.

Buttressed by an autocratic system, China’s colossal economic growth over the past decades seems to have had the paradoxical effect of undermining the foundation of Western domination but at the same time invigorating Eurocentricism. In particular, it highlights the current relevance of the central...

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Superior document:Ideas, history, and modern china ; Volume 6
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2013.
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Ideas, history, and modern China ; v. 6.
Physical Description:1 online resource (362 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction: Religion, Civil Society, and the Challenge of Global Justice
  • 1. Religion and the Problem of the “Social”
  • 2. Class and Economic Interaction: Historical Materialism as a Theory of Liberal Modernity
  • 3. Legitimation versus Theodicy: Weber’s Comparative Religion
  • 4. Hegemony and Democracy
  • 5. Class Consciousness or Ethical Hegemony?
  • 6. The Confucian Turn: New Democracy and Ethical Hegemony
  • 7. Communal Cults and World Religions
  • 8. God’s Justice on Earth: Sittlichkeit versus the Ethical State
  • 9. Public Hegemony and Sectlike Society (Part 1)
  • 10. Public Hegemony and Sectlike Society (Part 2)
  • Bibliography
  • Index.