Talk:Heaven worship

Latest comment: 11 years ago by Rajmaan in topic sources on heaven worship

Oppose merge

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This article is about the religion, Shangdi is about the being. Although, this article could be fleshed out a lot more. Миборовский 04:28, 18 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Shangdi was not a monotheistic being

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The wikipedia page for Shangdi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangdi) states:

"According to Yanxia Zhao, evidence shows that Shangdi was probably more transcendental than immanent, only working through lesser gods.[2]"

"2 Zhao, Yanxia. Chinese Religion: A Contextual Approach. 2010. p. 154"

If there were lesser gods, then Shangdi was not a monotheistic being.

107.7.27.126 (talk) 16:34, 28 August 2011 (UTC)ReadingAboutConfuciusLatelyReply

sources on heaven worship

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http://books.google.com/books?id=tAE2OJ9bPG0C&pg=PA176#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=-E5LZeR7QKwC&pg=PA126#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=a8NlooeZGC8C&pg=PA845#v=onepage&q&f=false

Page 83

http://books.google.com/books?id=1vEeAQAAMAAJ&q=Heaven+Guidang#search_anchor

http://books.google.com/books?id=JqUuEphJneAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=RtwAMoUzDJcC&pg=PA8&#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=Sc-shy_ZOMkC&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=1Gt4hU9R8sAC&pg=PA77#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=HRQZhAFacQoC&pg=PA91#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=Pj_e2d3eHTQC&pg=PA843#v=onepage&q&f=false

Vietnamese worship of shangdi and heaven

http://books.google.com/books?id=CAlh7JJYCvAC&pg=PA134#v=onepage&q&f=false

Rajmaan (talk) 22:16, 13 April 2013 (UTC)Reply