TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ing,Michael David Kaulana
TI  - The dysfunction of ritual in early Confucianism
T2  - Oxford ritual studies
SN  - 9780199924905
AV  - BL1858 .I44 2012eb
U1  - 299.5/1282 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Confucianism
KW  - Rituals
KW  - Confucianisme
KW  - Rituel
KW  - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
KW  - Spirituality
KW  - Paganism & Neo-Paganism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Comparative Religion
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - E-books
KW  - E-reference
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-273) and index; Ritual in the Liji -- Typology of dysfunction -- Coming to terms with dysfunction -- Preventing -- Inevitability of failure -- Whose fault is failure? Ambiguity and impinging agencies -- Ancients did not fix their graves -- Productive anxieties and the awfulness of failed ritual -- Concluding reflections: toward a tragic theory of ritual -- On the textual composition of the Liji
N2  - Michael Ing's 'The Dysfunction of Ritual in Early Confucianism' is the first monograph in English about the Liji - a text that purports to be the writings of Confucius' immediate disciples and part of the earliest canon of Confucian texts called 'The Five Classics', included in the canon several centuries before the Analects. Ing uses his analysis of the Liji to show how early Confucians coped with situations where their rituals failed to achieve their intended aims. In contrast to most contemporary interpreters of Confucianism, Ing demonstrates that early Confucian texts can be read as arguments for ambiguity in ritual failure
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