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"Civil Religion" and Confucianism: Japan's Past, China's Present, and the Current Boom in Scholarship on Confucianism
scholarship on the resurgence of Confucianism in contemporary China. It argues that
current scholarship employs modernist formulations of Confucianism that originated in
Japan’s twentieth-century confrontation with Republican China, without understanding
the inherent nationalist applications of these formulations. Current scholarly approaches
to Confucianism trace a history through Japanese-influenced U.S. scholars of the midtwentieth
century like Robert Bellah to Japanese imperialist and Chinese Republican
nationalist scholarship of the early twentieth century. This scholarship employed new
individualistic and modernist visions of religion and philosophy to isolate fields of
“Confucian values” or “Confucian philosophy” apart from the realities of social practice
and tradition, transforming Confucianism into a purely intellectualized ...Show more This article employs the history of Confucianism in modern Japan to critique current
scholarship on the resurgence of Confucianism in contemporary China. It argues that
current scholarship employs modernist formulations of Confucianism that originated in
Japan’s twentieth-century confrontation with Republican China, without understanding
the inherent nationalist applications of these formulations. Current scholarly approaches
to Confucianism trace a history through Japanese-influenced U.S. scholars of the midtwentieth
century like Robert Bellah to Japanese imperialist and Chinese Republican
nationalist scholarship of the early twentieth century. This scholarship employed new
individualistic and modernist visions of religion and philosophy to isolate fields of
“Confucian values” or “Confucian philosophy” apart from the realities of social practice
and tradition, transforming Confucianism into a purely intellectualized “empty box”
ripe to be filled with cultural nationalist content. This article contends that current
scholarship, by continuing this modernist approach, may unwittingly facilitate similar
nationalist exploitations of Confucianism.Show less
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- Paramore, K.N.
- Date
- 2015-05-01
- Journal
- The Journal of Asian Studies
- Volume
- 74
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 269 - 282