A Nomadic Spirituality in the Dream of the Red Chamber: Seeking the Goddess in an Immanent Process
The multicultural work, The Dream of the Red Chamber, posits a field for exploring the interconnection between Confucian interpretations and its intrinsic Goddess narrative. In this article, I examine the reconciliation of the former with the latter. The immanent transcendence in Neo-Confucianism is...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage
2022
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Feminist theology
Year: 2022, Volume: 30, Issue: 2, Pages: 222-233 |
IxTheo Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism TJ Modern history |
Further subjects: | B
nomadic spirituality
B Goddess B Process B The Dream of the Red Chamber B Immanence |
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Summary: | The multicultural work, The Dream of the Red Chamber, posits a field for exploring the interconnection between Confucian interpretations and its intrinsic Goddess narrative. In this article, I examine the reconciliation of the former with the latter. The immanent transcendence in Neo-Confucianism is not enough for interpreting this novel, for covering the question of a natural connection between Vermilion Pearl and Shen Ying, for a dichotomy of tian and the earth, the transcendent and the immanent. The Goddess narrative of repairing tian can rectify this difficult position and a nomadic spirituality forged in a mutually cultivating process is proposed, both to rescue the Confucian interpretation of the novel and to find a way of reconciling the Confucian ‘tian’ and the Goddess. |
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ISSN: | 1745-5189 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Feminist theology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/09667350211055448 |