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The Religious System of China
This book offers a detailed analysis of the religious and cultural context of China, focusing on the evolution of its religious systems from ancient times to the present day. The author, Jan Jakob Maria Groot, provides a comprehensive overview of the various religious beliefs and practices that have shaped Chinese society, as well as their impact on social and political institutions. With its detailed scholarship and clear writing, this volume is an essential read for anyone interested in the history and culture of China. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Religion of the Chinese Illustrated
Jan Jakob Maria de Groot (18 February 1854 - 24 September 1921) was a Dutch sinologist and historian of religion. He taught at the Leiden University and later at the University of Berlin, and is chiefly remembered for his monumental work, The Religious System of China, Its Ancient Forms, Evolution, History and Present Aspect, Manners, Customs and Social Institutions Connected Therewith. The two "books" of this detailed and well-illustrated treatise appeared in six volumes - and, according to the preface in the first volume, the System was originally meant to include several more "books".
The Religion of The Chinese Illustrated
Welcome reader while reading this book author ( Jan Jakob Maria de Groot) let you go on the tour of the old china, an author was a Dutch Sinologist(Sinology is the academic study of China primarily through Chinese language, literature, Chinese culture and history, and often refers to Western scholarship. Its origin "may be traced to the examination which Chinese scholars made of their own civilization.") and historian of religion.After reading this book you will came to know about the growth of china(The reader should be mindful that this book was written, while China still had its imperial government, prior to the revolutions which established a republic and later a communist system which abolished the state religion and declared China to be an atheist state.) in the context of religion and history .
Religion in China
This groundbreaking study of Chinese religion, written by Jan Jakob Maria Groot, a leading authority on the subject, offers a provocative new approach to understanding the complex relationship between Taoism and Confucianism. Universism, the philosophical system that underlies both traditions, is the key to understanding their commonalities and differences, as Groot's incisive analysis makes clear. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Religion of the Chinese Annotated
J. J. M. (Jan Jakob Maria) de Groot, Ph.D., (1854 to 1921) was a Dutch Sinologist and historian of religion. In this scholarly book published in 1910, he details the history, rituals, and beliefs of the major traditional religions of China: universal animism, polydemonism, specters, ancestral worship, Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. He thought that one spiritual essence could be detected beneath a great variety of religious, philosophical, and even political expressions in China, and his lifework was the discovery and exposition of that essence.
The Religion of the Chinese
J. J. M. (Jan Jakob Maria) de Groot, Ph.D., (1854-1921) was a Dutch Sinologist and historian of religion. In this scholarly book published in 1910, he details the history, rituals, and beliefs of the major traditional religions of China: universal animism, polydemonism, specters, ancestral worship, Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. He thought that one spiritual essence could be detected beneath a great variety of religious, philosophical, and even political expressions in China, and his lifework was the discovery and exposition of that essence.
The Religion of the Chinese
J. J. M. (Jan Jakob Maria) de Groot, Ph.D., (1854-1921) was a Dutch Sinologist and historian of religion. In this scholarly book published in 1910, he details the history, rituals, and beliefs of the major traditional religions of China: universal animism, polydemonism, specters, ancestral worship, Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. He thought that one spiritual essence could be detected beneath a great variety of religious, philosophical, and even political expressions in China, and his lifework was the discovery and exposition of that essence. The reader should be mindful that this was written while China was still under its imperial system of government with an emperor at its head, prior to the revolutions which established a republic and later a communist system that eschewed any state religion.
Plants of Life, Plants of Death
This study examines plants associated with ritual purity, fertility, prosperity and life, and plants associated with ritual impurity, sickness, ill fate and death. It provides detail from history, ethnography, religious studies, classics, folklore, ethnobotany and medicine.
