The religious character of the Confucian tradition.(The Religious Dimension of Confucianism in Japan) From: Philosophy East and West | Date: January 1, 1998| Author: Taylor, Rodney L. | COPYRIGHT 1998 University of Hawaii Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The Confucian tradition does have a religious character, although in modern scholarship it has been seen more as humanism. A definition of religion that focuses on identification of an Absolute and transformation of the individual toward the Absolute makes it possible to classify Confucianism as a religion. Sagehood is the end result of the transformative process that takes the seeker toward the realization of its Absolute. Confucianism's religious basis can be seen in the identification of a...

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