RLGA01H3 Lecture Notes - Oracle Bone, Spring And Autumn Annals, Geomancy
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Referring to the religions practiced in china; or brought from china to elsewhere. No belief in any deity or gods. Focuses more on the philosophy of life. Early religious thought in china: the 3 realms: heaven human earth; we are trapped between heaven and earth; heaven means the stars and earth means what we are standing on. Inseparability of the religion and culture; they are one. Chinese usually practice more than one religion at a time. Examples of east asian religions: confucianism, taoism (daoism), yin-yang school (school of thought that attempts to summarize what we see in our world into two elements, yin and yang), chinese. Neolethic period (beginning of the late 4th millennium bce): goddess person, believed in an afterlife. Shang zhou chu xia: important people (?) Other religious beliefs: oracle bones and divination, human sacrifice, roles of shamans (leaders of the tribes, sometimes doctors, claimed that they get mandate of heaven as a way to claim authority)
