Ritual and the Moral Life

1. Ritual as a Cardinal Category of Moral Reality: An Introduction
David Solomon, Ping-Cheung Lo, Ruiping Fan, H. Tristram Engelhardt

2. Ritual as the Creation of Social Reality
Ana S. Iltis

3. Ritual, Virtue, and Human Flourishing: Rites as Bearers of Meaning
H. Tristram Engelhardt

4. Ritual as Education Concerning Social Space and Time
Mark J. Cherry

5. Why the West Spurns Medical Rituals
Griffin Trotter

6. Ritual: Meaning and Recognition
Tangjia Wang

7. An Analysis of the Consciousness of Filial Piety Through the Perspective of Time
Xianglong Zhang

8. Confucian Rites of Passage: A Comparative Analysis of Zhu Xi’s Family Rituals

Ping-Cheung Lo

9. Confucian Ritualization: How and Why?
Ruiping Fan

10. Cultural and Philosophical Resistance to Ritual in Contemporary Culture
David Solomon

11. Hierarchical Rituals for Egalitarian Societies
Daniel A. Bell

12. Ritual, Harmony, and Peace and Order: A Confucian Conception of Ritual
Jonathan Chan

13. The Traditional Ritual Project
George Khushf

14. Renewing Ritual Cultures: Paternal Authority, Filial Piety, and the Ethos of Self-Submission in Christianity and Confucianism
Corinna Delkeskamp-Hayes

Keywords: Philosophy, Non-Western Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, Religious Studies