Chinese Ethical-Religious Tradition

This group holds a Chinese tradition classed as ethical-religious, a tradition rooted in the Chinese cultural world that functions at once as a system of ethics and social order and as a religion with rites and reverence. Confucianism is the paradigm case, oriented to moral cultivation, ritual propriety and the ancestors.

The browser will find the tradition the atlas classes here. The entries describe it in its own terms, noting the long scholarly debate over whether it is best called a religion, a philosophy, or both at once.