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Confucian Sites
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Sites associated with Confucius and with Confucian ritual and educational practice, most centrally temples and academies rather than sites of worship in the theistic sense, since Confucianism itself sits at the boundary between a religion and an ethical and civic tradition. Sacred sites are grouped by tradition at a fine grain here, so a heading can be narrow without that saying anything about the tradition's own reach.
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Standing as a Comparative CategoryContested. Whether the temple cult of Confucius is religion or a civil and educational rite has been argued inside the tradition and in the scholarship for centuries, and the answer given decides what counts as a Confucian sacred site at all. The atlas records the places and does not settle the question. 2 Overview
What Defines This GroupingTemples and precincts of the veneration of Confucius and the tradition's sages, at which state-sponsored rites to the teacher were performed by officials rather than by a priesthood. 2 Learn More
Confucian sacred sites
This small group gathers a Confucian sacred site, a temple or precinct dedicated to the veneration of Confucius and the sages of the tradition, where rites honouring the great teacher were performed.
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