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Features 349 Mayfair Yang, editor. Chinese Religiosities: Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. vii, 449 pp. Paperback $29.95, ISBN 978-0-520-09864-0. Daniel A. Bell. China's New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. xi, 240 pp. Hardcover $26.95, ISBN 978-0-691-13690-5. K. K. Yeo. Musing with Confucius and Paul: Toward a Chinese Christian Theology. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books. 508 pp. Softcover $55.00, ISBN 9781-55635-488-5. In reviewing these three books, I look at religion (with the exception of extreme fundamentalism) in what Ninian Smart in his Gifford Lectures (19791980) termed the "critical age," in which he asserts that religion cannot escape the effects of the open society. It is no longer possible for religion to be dogmatic in an unqualified way, for even if I accept the authority of a guru or of the Pope it is I who do the accepting; we have ineluctably moved to an age of pluralism and individual choice. If there are new forms of tradition they are chosen forms, and such traditionalism is no longer quite traditional. Religion has thus moved from the dogmatic to the critical age (emphasis added).1 Selectivity
China Review International – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Oct 24, 2009
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