confucianism

Admittedly, this a matter I have relatively little knowledge of. Nonetheless, I found it deeply interesting on surface-leaving research. To the best of my knowledge, both Caliphal polities retained fairly large bureaucracies (often with a notable number of non-Muslim civil servants). However...

As something of a sign that I spend too much time on this site, this AHC idea popped into my head two days ago and has been bugging me ever sense. Basically, there are six classical schools of Chinese philosophy (Confucianism, Legalism, Taoism, Mohism, the School of Yin-Yang, and the School of...

In other words: what if the 17th century Chinese Rites controversy went the other way? The big issues apparently were: the correct Chinese terminology for "God," the practice of Confucian seasonal rituals, and the practice of offering incense in veneration of dead ancestors. Suppose the...

Could Confucianism, Taoism, or Buddhism have become established in the Roman Empire or Early Middle Ages Europe, in at least some areas, in place of Christianity?

I'm not sure if the thread title is self-explanatory, so here goes my question: how well did Islam integrate with Asian (western, southern and eastern) religions. I'm aware about Akbar the Great's proposed syncretism between Islam and Hinduism, but that's an "up-down" and arguably artificial...

Considering how many of the Roman writers and politicians emphasized old Roman virtues/values, it doesn't seem unlikely to me that, had Christianity not taken over, somebody would eventually codify a school of though based on the 'old ways' of Rome - similarly, it doesn't seem unreasonable to me...