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Article: Confucianism as world philosophy: a response to Neville's Boston Confucianism from a Neo-Confucian perspective.
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- Journal of Ecumenical Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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Robert Neville published his book, Boston Confucianism, in 2000. (1) The first chapter is titled: "The Short Happy Life of Boston Confucianism," which is based on an article contributed for the 1994 Daedalus authors' conference for a special issue on China in Transformation. It appears that the life of Boston Confucianism has not been so short. The snowball has rolled bigger and bigger. When such a book is published, it needs to be taken seriously, and I would like to respond to him from a Neo-Confucian perspective. (2)
Neville pointed out that he owed the phrase "multiple religious identity" to his colleague John Berthrong, another important member of Boston ...