Topic 6
Chinese and Japanese Popular Religions
Complete the following prompts by analyzing key issues in Chinese and Japanese popular religions. A minimum of five academic resources is required, one of which must be the course textbook. Use at least one resource per question.
- Briefly summarize five key features of syncretistic (mixed together) Chinese popular religion (shamanism/ancestor worship, Chinese idolatry, Confucianism, Daoism, Mahayana Buddhism). (75-100 words total)
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- Briefly summarize three key features of syncretistic (mixed together) Japanese popular religion (Shintoism, Japanese Buddhism, and Confucianism). (75-100 words total)
- Key Feature #1:
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- Key Feature #3:
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- Describe key religious practices (e.g., arranging a marriage, funerals, etc.) that an individual follower of Chinese popular religion might do in their daily life or alternatively in a lifetime. Describe practices from at least three of the five religions. (75-100 words)
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- Describe key religious practices (e.g., emperor’s birthday, birth of a baby, etc.) that an individual follower of Japanese popular religion might do in their daily life or alternatively in a lifetime. Describe practices from at least three of the five religions. (75-100 words)
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- Describe the interaction that a Christian might have with a follower of Chinese or Japanese syncretistic popular religions in a respectful, constructive manner while maintaining clarity and faithfulness to the core Christian message of creation-fall-redemption and restoration through Christ alone. Take into account Chinese or Japanese shamanism, ancestor fear, and fear of the spirit world. (200-250 words)
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