Meaning and Controversy within Chinese Ancestor Religion 1st Edition Paulin Batairwa Kubuya 3319705245 9783319705248

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• ISBN 10: 3319705245
• ISBN 13: 9783319705248
• Author: Paulin Batairwa Kubuya

Chinese practices related to ancestors have long been the subject of conflicting interpretations. These practices are rooted in the lived experience of practitioners, and therefore need to be considered as embodied expressions of the quest for existential meaning. For practitioners, the achievement of existential meaning requires the inclusion, implication, and mediation of the ancestors. When gestures in ancestor rites are analyzed from this perspective it is possible to appreciate their essence as constitutive of “ancestor religion.” This book uses an inquisitive method that investigates the discrepancies between foreign and local explanations, and proposes another hermeneutic framework for ancestor related praxes.

Table of contents:

1. Introduction: Are Ancestors a Problem?

2. The Hermeneutic Challenge of Ancestor-Related Practices

3. The Conflict of Interpretation of Chinese Ancestor Rites

4. “Our” Perspective: The Indigenous Explanation of Ancestor Rites

5. Existential Practical Hermeneutics of Ancestor Religion

6. Conclusion

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