Imperial China and the State Cult of Confucius by Leon Stover

Imperial China and the State Cult of Confucius

Leon Stover

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nonfiction history philosophy religion
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Initiated during the Former Han Dynasty in 136 BCE, the state cult of Confucius endured for more than 2000 years as the civil religion of a vast empire that ever-renewed itself despite periodic disunity and barbarian conquests. This was a weak agr...

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