Varieties of Confucian Experience

Sébastien Billioud is Professor of Chinese Studies at University Paris-Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité. Based on a cross-disciplinary approach, his research explores the multi-faceted fates of modern and contemporary Confucianism.

• AcknowledgementsIllustrationsContributorsIntroductionSébastien Billioud1 The Birth of a New Religion: The Development of The Confucian Congregation in Southeast ChinaChen Na, Fan Lizhu and Chen Jinguo2 Making a Virtue of Piety: Dizigui and the Discursive Practice of Jingkong’s Network Ji Zhe 汲喆 3 Popular Groups Promoting “The Religion of Confucius” in the Chinese Southwest and Their Activities since the Nineteenth Century (1840–2013): An Observation Centered on Yunnan’s Eryuan County and EnvironsWang Chien-Chuan 王見川4 Belief and Faith: The Situation and Development of Confucianism in Yunnan ProvinceChung Yun-ying5 Civil Spirituality and Confucian Piety Today: The Activities of Confucian Temples in Qufu, Taipei, and ChangchunNakajima Takahiro6 The Revival of Traditional Culture and Religious Experience in Modern Urban Life: The Example of the Changchun Confucius TempleIshii Tsuyoshi7 Contemporary Confucius Temples Life in Mainland China: Report from the FieldAnna Sun8 Rites Bridging the Ancient and Modern: The Revival of Offerings at Urban Ancestral TemplesChen Bisheng 9 An Adventure Called “Sishu”: The Tensions and Vagaries of a “Holistic” Educational Experience (zhengti jiaoyu) in Today’s Rural ChinaGuillaume Dutournier and Wang Yuchen10 Confucian Revival and the Media: The CCTV “Lecture Room” ProgramFabrice DuleryBibliographyIndex

"As a significant contribution to the anthropological study of Confucianism, this volume informs the reader about the degree to which Confucianism matters in contemporary Chinese society."-Yang Chen, El Colegio de México, in Review of Religion and Chinese Society 6 (2019) 297-317