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CHINESE PERSPECTIVES HISTORY HANDBOOK OF THE ...

This book is part of an initiative in cooperation with renowned Chinese publishers to make
fundamental  formative  and influential Chinese thinkers available to a western readership 
providing absorbing insights into Chinese reflections of late  and offering a chance to grasp
today¿s China. In their influential book Handbook of the History of Religions in China 
Zhongjian Mou and Jian Zhang present a panorama of the religions existing in China through
time. In their fascinating History  they delineate the emergence and development of Daoism 
Buddhism  Confucianism  Islam  and Christianity and explore the roles they played in Chinese
society and the interrelations between them. In China  also due to the encompassing Confucian
idea of ¿living together harmoniously while maintaining differences ¿ religions¿including newly
arrived ones¿came closer together than anywhere else in the world and reached a unique level of
peaceful societal coexistence. Despite many frictions and conflicts  communication and
reconciliation were indisputably predominant in China throughout history. Buddhism was
peacefully introduced into China and  later on  a harmonious  symbiotic syncretism of
Confucianism  Buddhism  and Daoism developed¿an exemplary process of how a diverse set of
different religions can complement each other and contribute to a better life.

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