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From Trustworthiness to Secular Beliefs: Changing Concepts of Xin 信 From Traditional to Modern Chinese

From Trustworthiness to Secular Beliefs: Changing Concepts of Xin 信 From Traditional to Modern Chinese

Meyer, Christian
Clart, Philip

Hardcover

Series: Religion in Chinese Societies, Book 19

BuddhismConfucianismTaoism

ISBN10: 9004532994
ISBN13: 9789004532991
Publisher: Brill
Published: Mar 30 2023
Pages: 644
Weight: 2.40
Height: 1.44 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
What does the Chinese term xin 信 mean? How does it relate to the concept of faith in a Western sense? How far does it still denote being trustworthy in its ancient Confucian sense? When did major shifts occur in its long history of semantics that allowed later Christian missionaries to use the term regularly as a translation for the concept of believing in gods or God?

This volume offers a broad picture of the semantic history of this Chinese term, throwing light on its semantic multi-layeredness shaped by changing discursive contexts, interactions between various ideological milieus, and transcultural encounters.

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