Chapter 1 Ritual as a Cardinal Category of Moral Reality: An Introduction

Chapter 2 Ritual as the Creation of Social Reality

Chapter 3 Ritual, Virtue, and Human Flourishing: Rites as Bearers of Meaning

Chapter 4 Ritual as Education Concerning Social Space and Time

Chapter 6 Ritual: Meaning and Recognition

Chapter 7 An Analysis of the Consciousness of Filial Piety Through the Perspective of Time

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

Chapter 9 Confucian Ritualization: How and Why?

Chapter 10 Cultural and Philosophical Resistance to Ritual in Contemporary Culture

Chapter 11 Hierarchical Rituals for Egalitarian Societies

Chapter 12 Ritual, Harmony, and Peace and Order: A Confucian Conception of Ritual

Chapter 13 The Traditional Ritual Project

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