Kineska narodna religija

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Kineska narodna religija (takođe poznata kao kineska popularna religija ili šenizam) najraširenija je forma religije u Kini, i među kinezima širom sveta. To je religiozna tradicija Han Kineza i uključuje počast silama prirode i predaka, egzorcizam štetnih sila i verovanje u racionalni poredak prirode na koji mogu uticati ljudi i njihovi vladari, kao i duhovi i bogovi. Obožavanje je posvećeno mnoštvu bogova i besmrtnika (神 shén), koji mogu biti božanstva pojava, ljudskog ponašanja ili predaka rodova. Priče o nekim od tih bogova sakupljene su u telu kineske mitologije. Do 11. veka (Song perioda) ove prakse su bile pomešane sa budističkim idejama o karmi (sopstvenom činjenju) i ponovnom rođenju, kao i taoističkim učenjima o hijerarhiji bogova kako bi se formirao popularni religijski sistem koji je trajao na mnogo načina do današnjeg dana.

Kineske religije imaju različite izvore, lokalne oblike, poreklo osnivača, i obredne i filozofske tradicije. Uprkos ovoj raznolikosti, postoji zajedničko jezgro koje se može sažeti u četiri teološka, kosmološka i moralna koncepta: tjen (天), nebo, transcendentni izvor moralnog značenja; či (氣), dah ili energija koja animira univerzum; đingcu (敬祖), poštovanje predaka; i bao jing (報應), moralna uzajamnost; zajedno sa dva tradicionalna pojma sudbine i značenja: ming juen (命運), lična sudbina ili procvat; i juen fen (緣分), „sudbonosna slučajnost”, dobre i loše šanse i potencijalni odnosi.

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Spoljašnje veze

• China Ancestral Temples Network
• Bored in Heaven Архивирано на сајту Wayback Machine (19. октобар 2018), a documentary on the reinvention of Chinese religion and Taoism. By Kenneth Dean, 2010, 80 minutes.