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29 October 2026

27 October 2026

  • 14:2214:22, 27 October 2026 Tian (hist | edit) [12,386 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} = {{FULLPAGENAME}} = <blockquote class="definition">'''Tian''' 天, conventionally translated as “Heaven,” is the Confucian '''ground of all being''' and the ultimate source of life, cosmic order, moral authority, and human nature. Its meanings range from the physical sky and spontaneous processes of nature to a purposive supreme power, the source of political mandate and personal destiny, and the metaphysical Way or Principle underlying existence. In it...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 13:4613:46, 27 October 2026 Confuscius (hist | edit) [10,970 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition"> '''Confucius''' (Kong Qiu 孔丘, also known by his courtesy name Kong Zhongni 孔仲尼; 551–479 BCE) was a Chinese teacher, political thinker, and transmitter of the inherited Zhou tradition. He was born in the state of Lu in eastern China, traditionally at Qufu in present-day Shandong, into a once-aristocratic family that had fallen into poverty. Although he briefly held public...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 13:2413:24, 27 October 2026 He (hist | edit) [11,882 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition">'''He''' (和, hé) is harmony: the appropriate, creative, and life-supporting coordination of different elements within the person, human relationships, society, and the cosmos. It does not mean uniformity or the elimination of difference; Confucians explicitly distinguish ''he'' from ''tong'' (同), mere identity or sameness. Harmony is both an ethical achievement and the destinati...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 12:5212:52, 27 October 2026 Dao (hist | edit) [9,283 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition">'''Dao''' (道, also romanised ''Tao'') is literally a road or path and, in Confucian thought, the Way that humans are called to discern, follow, practise, and embody. As Xinzhong Yao explains, “the original meaning of ''dao'' as a road or a path is enriched to mean the universal Way applicable and existent in every corner of the universe.”<ref name="yao140">Xinzhong Yao, ''An In...")
  • 04:4504:45, 27 October 2026 The Great Learning (hist | edit) [18,886 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition">'''The Great Learning''' (''Daxue'' 大學) is a short Confucian classic, originally preserved as a chapter of the ''Book of Rites'' and later placed first among the Four Books in Zhu Xi’s educational curriculum.<ref>Anna Sun, ''Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities'' (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013), 21...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
  • 03:4503:45, 27 October 2026 The Five Classics (hist | edit) [1,371 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition">'''The Five Classics''' are </blockquote> == Concept Map == === Key Terms === World System >{{#ask:Is a key term::World System|format=ul}}Human Development Framework >{{#ask:Is a key term::Human Development Framework|format=ul}} ===List of Human Development Frameworks=== {{#ask:Is a::Connection Framework|format=ul|format=ul}} === Confucian Terms === {{#ask:...")
  • 03:4403:44, 27 October 2026 The Four Books (hist | edit) [8,028 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition">'''The Four Books''' are </blockquote> == Concept Map == === Key Terms === World System >{{#ask:Is a key term::World System|format=ul}}Human Development Framework >{{#ask:Is a key term::Human Development Framework|format=ul}} ===List of Human Development Frameworks=== {{#ask:Is a::Connection Framework|format=ul|format=ul}} === Confucian Terms === {{#ask:I...")

26 October 2026

  • 15:4415:44, 26 October 2026 Confucianism (hist | edit) [18,232 bytes] Kimi (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} = {{FULLPAGENAME}} = <blockquote class="definition">'''Confucianism''' is a Chinese Human Development Framework originating in the teachings of Kong Qiu, better known as Kongzi or Confucius (551–479 BCE), who understood himself primarily as a transmitter and renewer of the ethical and ritual traditions of the earlier Zhou period rather than as the founder of an entirely new doctrine.<ref>Confucius, ''Confucius: Analects: With Selections from Traditiona...") Tag: Visual edit

22 October 2026

  • 03:4703:47, 22 October 2026 Sociology Of Religion (book) (hist | edit) [2,032 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with " ==Notes== ===Chapter One=== Weber's opening chapter, "The Rise of Religions," offers a powerful corrective to the notion that religion is primarily about otherworldly salvation. Its central strength is the argument that religious behavior is fundamentally practical and interest-driven, rooted in the material realities of everyday life. Weber states this explicitly, noting that "religiously or magically motivated behavior is relatively rational behavior, especially i...")

18 October 2026

14 October 2026

  • 13:1213:12, 14 October 2026 Ritual Intensity (hist | edit) [6,013 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition">For Collins, '''Ritual intensity''' is the degree to which a ritual succeeds in building mutual focus of attention and emotional entrainment — the strength of the self-reinforcing feedback loop that, at its peak, produces the Emotional Energy of Collective Effervescence.<ref>Randall Collins, ''Interaction Ritual Chains'' (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004), 42, 50...") Tag: Visual edit

12 October 2026

  • 15:3615:36, 12 October 2026 Consecration (hist | edit) [1,163 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with " <blockquote>Also, in the present day just as much as in the past, we see society constantly creating sacred things out of ordinary ones. If it happens to fall in love with a man and if it thinks it has found in him the principal aspirations that move it, as well as the means of satisfying them, this man will be raised above the others and, as it were, deified. Opinion will invest him with a majesty exactly analogous to that protecting the gods. . . . And the fact that...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
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