Ritual and the Moral Life

• I.          Ritual, Virtue, and the Pursuit of the Holy.-Ritual as the Creation of Social Reality  - Ana Iltis.- Ritual, Virtue, and Human Flourishing - H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr..-Ritual as Education Concerning Social Space and Time - Mark Cherry.- Why the West Spurns Medical Ritual Griffin Trotter.-II.        Confucian Insights: Ritual as the Fabric of the Moral Community.-Ritual: Meaning and Recognition - Tangjia Wang.- An Analysis of the Consciousness of Filial Piety Through the Time Horizon  Xianglong Zhang.- Confucian Rites of Passage: A Comparative Analysis of Zhu Xi’s Family Rituals -  Ping-cheung Lo.- Confucian Ritualization: How and Why - Ruiping Fan.-III.       Ritual and Tradition as Challenge to Modernity.-Cultural and Philosophical Resistance to Ritual in the Modern World - David Solomon.- In Favour of the Disadvantaged: Ritual in Xunzi and the Modern World - Daniel Bell.- Ritual, Harmony and Peace and Order - Jonathan Chan.-IV        The Traditional Ritual Project.-Ritual, Society and Community - George Khushf.-  Christian and Confucian Cultural Renewal: The Role of Ritual - Corinna Delkeskamp-Hayes.

From the book reviews: "The book, which is in English, represents a serious effort to deal with the Confucian philosophy of ritual, focusing on comparative philosophy between Christian and Chinese Confucian understandings of ritual observance in real life. ... This book is likely to inspire scholars who are interested in ritual to participate and extend the discussion. ... Ritual and the Moral Life has certainly opened a new phase in philosophical studies on ritual." (Hwa Yeong Wang, Philosophy East & West, Vol. 64, January, 2014)