- Author
- Bart Dessein (UGent)
- Organization
- Abstract
- This article discusses how, in contemporary China, politico-religious narratives that reiterate the country's Confucian tradition serve to create a sense of belonging and sharedness in a community, and provide a way to interpret this community and the contemporary Chinese nation as having a divine mission. As these Chinese foundational myths combine elements of Confucianism with patriotism and nationalism, they can be interpreted as a constitutive element of a "civil religion with Chinese characteristics", and as providing arguments for a "religious" legitimation of the CCP as organization that has to lead the nation on this mission.
- Keywords
- Civil Religion, New Confucianism, political rhetoric, Confucianism
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-4381812
- MLA
- Dessein, Bart. “Faith and Politics: (New) Confucianism as Civil Religion.” ASIAN STUDIES, vol. 18, no. 1, 2014, pp. 39–64.
- APA
- Dessein, B. (2014). Faith and politics: (new) confucianism as civil religion. ASIAN STUDIES, 18(1), 39–64.
- Chicago author-date
- Dessein, Bart. 2014. “Faith and Politics: (New) Confucianism as Civil Religion.” ASIAN STUDIES 18 (1): 39–64.
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- Dessein, Bart. 2014. “Faith and Politics: (New) Confucianism as Civil Religion.” ASIAN STUDIES 18 (1): 39–64.
- Vancouver
- 1.Dessein B. Faith and politics: (new) confucianism as civil religion. ASIAN STUDIES. 2014;18(1):39–64.
- IEEE
- [1]B. Dessein, “Faith and politics: (new) confucianism as civil religion,” ASIAN STUDIES, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 39–64, 2014.
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