This book offers a reflection on Tu Weiming's legacy and deals with Confucianism and New Confucianism and Tu Weiming's contribution to both of these Chinese philosophical traditions, studies how Confucianism has been received, especially in Asia, and considers Confucianism in connection with contemporary challenges.

Introduction

Part I: Tu Weiming: A Confucian Life

Chapter 1: The Confucian Helicopter: An Overview of Tu Weiming's (Myriad) Affiliations and Innovations

Wang Jianbao

Chapter 2: Tu Weiming: In Lieu of an Intellectual Biography

Jonathan Keir

Chapter 3: Tu Weiming and Boston Confucianism

Robert C. Neville

Part II: Confucianism in Theory and Practice

Chapter 4: Confucianism and Democracy: Lessons from Tu Weiming

Fred Dallmayr

Chapter 5: Confucianism as a Religious Tradition: Linguistic and Methodological Problems

Joseph A. Adler

Chapter 6: As-If-Ism: A Confucian Model of Spirituality

Peimin Ni

Chapter 7: Reflections on Confucianism and Culture

Peter K. Bol

Part III: Historical Voyages

Chapter 8: Confucianism and Its Reception by Alexandre de Rhodes in Seventeenth-Century Vietnam

Peter C. Phan

Chapter 9: From Debate to Dialogue: Confucianism and Religious Pluralism in the Context of Christian-Confucian Relations

Anh Q. Tran

Chapter 10: Second Thoughts about Confucianism in Wartime Japan, 1937-1945

Samuel H. Yamashita

Chapter 11: D. T. Suzuki's Impressions of Chinese Buddhism (1934) as His Spiritual Journey

Michiko Yusa

Part IV: Future Challenges

Chapter 12: Confucian Cosmology and the Journey of the Universe

Mary Evelyn Tucker

Chapter 13: Advancing Humanity: Artificial Intelligence, Transhumanism, Confucianism, and Theo-Dao

Heup Young Kim

Chapter 14: Envisioning a New Humanity: Tu Weiming and Raimon Panikkar

Young-chan Ro

About the Contributors

Young-chan Ro is professor and founding chair of the Department of Religious Studies and the Director of the Korean Studies Center at George Mason University.

Jonathan Keir teaches International Literatures at the University of Tübingen and serves as a program coordinator for the Karl Schlecht Foundation.

Peter C. Phan is the inaugural holder of the Ignacio Ellacuría Chair of Catholic Social Thought at Georgetown University.