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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Michael David Kaulana Ing (Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.10cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 15.50cm Weight: 0.399kg ISBN: 9780199924912ISBN 10: 0199924910 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 15 November 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order ![]() Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsConventions Introduction Chapter One: Ritual in the Liji Chapter Two: A Typology of Dysfunction Chapter Three: Coming to Terms with Dysfunction Chapter Four: Preventing Chapter Five: The Inevitability of Failure Chapter Six: Whose Fault is Failure? Ambiguity and Impinging Agencies Chapter Seven: The Ancients did not Fix Their Graves Chapter Eight: Productive Anxieties and the Awfulness of Failed Ritual Concluding Reflections: Toward a Tragic Theory of Ritual Appendix: On the Textual Composition of the Liji Notes Bibliography IndexReviews<br> Ing's work is simply brilliant! He has brought both the right text and the right method to bear on the central question of the religious nature of the Confucian tradition. By focusing upon the Liji with its probing account of ritual performance and meaning and by applying the method and theory of religious studies, Ing has been able to probe the depths of religious meaning within the Confucian context specifically and larger Chinese context more generally. --Rodney L. Taylor, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder<p><br> ""The Dysfunction of Ritual in Early Confucianism brings readers into the intricacies of the text of the Liji. Michael Ing respects the diversity of perspectives in the text while paying close attention to the ways that its authors shared a central concern with failures in ritual practice.""--New Book in East Asian Studies ""Ing's work is simply brilliant! He has brought both the right text and the right method to bear on the central question of the religious nature of the Confucian tradition. By focusing upon the Liji with its probing account of ritual performance and meaning and by applying the method and theory of religious studies, Ing has been able to probe the depths of religious meaning within the Confucian context specifically and larger Chinese context more generally.""--Rodney L. Taylor, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder Ing's work is simply brilliant! He has brought both the right text and the right method to bear on the central question of the religious nature of the Confucian tradition. By focusing upon the Liji with its probing account of ritual performance and meaning and by applying the method and theory of religious studies, Ing has been able to probe the depths of religious meaning within the Confucian context specifically and larger Chinese context more generally. --Rodney L. Taylor, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder The Dysfunction of Ritual in Early Confucianism brings readers into the intricacies of the text of the Liji. Michael Ing respects the diversity of perspectives in the text while paying close attention to the ways that its authors shared a central concern with failures in ritual practice. New Book in East Asian Studies Ing's work is simply brilliant! He has brought both the right text and the right method to bear on the central question of the religious nature of the Confucian tradition. By focusing upon the Liji with its probing account of ritual performance and meaning and by applying the method and theory of religious studies, Ing has been able to probe the depths of religious meaning within the Confucian context specifically and larger Chinese context more generally. Rodney L. Taylor, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder Author InformationMichael David Kaulana Ing is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |