The religions of eastern Asia

Horace Grant Underwood

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w-rr^fT!T^:^ so point, and allow this nature-worship to be calledthis this term, by which it is in part characterized, andby in reality caricatured. and noteBut right here let us stop for a moment, inthe comparative development of nature-worship the three countries. had wandered away fromChina, as we have seen, and had developed a nature-her primitive faith, which, in its extravagances, met with theworship both Lao-tsze and Confucius, but wasprotests of en-ready for its systematization when, by thejust fullytrance of Buddhism, there was presented a termeddeveloped religion, and, by what has been aa species of "plagiarism," the Taoist built up the pat-hierarchy and a systematized cult after THE SHAMANISM OF KOREA Buddhism,tern of and side by side the two have stood. however, we found differentIn Japan, a state of affairs, due very largely to the different stage of de- velopment at which Shintoism came in contact with the faith of India. The nature-worship of Japan had been allowed a further development before the arrival of Buddhism, and this arrival synchronized with the necessity, aswe saw, of establishing a raison d'etre for the conquerors and the reigning house. timeAs these were by this (even though originally from across the waters)perhaps native to all intents and purposes, this couldJapanese not be done through a foreign religion, and the indige- nous myths and stories were threaded into a whole, and the native faith systematized.

Sujets

• Taoism
• Confucianism
• Shinto
• Shamanism
• Buddhism

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 16
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 9 Mo

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«THE RELIGIONS OF
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HORACE GRANT UNDERWOOD, D.D.
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1910
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