This page groups sacred sites by whether their sacred status is still actively maintained. Wikipedia notes that Mircea Eliade "argues that while the concept of a sacred space is often associated with religious traditions, it is not exclusive to them," since secular societies can keep treating a place as significant too. Browsing this way lets a visitor tell a site with living religious observance apart from one preserved mainly for its history.
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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.
The browser will find the site the atlas classes here. The entry describes its role in the Confucian tradition and its history.
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1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. The Five "Confucian" Classics
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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