Confucius, an ancient Chinese philosopher, stressed integrity as character's foundation. His teachings, recorded in The ...

The “Confucian Gentleman Doctrine,” or the “Way of the Confucian Gentleman ideal,” is a concept I proposed in 2026. The ...

Indonesia observed its first national day honoring indigenous beliefs on July 13, calling it a historic recognition of the ...

Sungkyunkwan University (President Ji-beom Yoo) announced that its Institute of Confucian Philosophy and Culture (Director, ...

By Takahiro Nakajima / Special to The Yomiuri Shimbun [posttime] JST, [postdate] Two of the major modern principles regarding religion are secularism and the separation of church and state. But in ...

Buddhism never used a sword for its spread, not in the sense of the conquest of the world by Columbus and his followers, and Abrahamic religions down the centuries. There is no Sword of Buddhism.

Qufu, the hometown of Confucius in Shandong province, holds ceremonies on Sunday to commemorate the 2,576th anniversary of the philosopher's birth. [Photo by Yang Guoqing / for chinadaily.com.cn] ...

For decades, scholars and politicians have marveled at the fact that democracies do not fight one another. “The absence of war between democracies comes as close as anything we have to an empirical ...

Nir Eyal started to get heart palpitations, dry mouth and sweaty armpits when he was about to talk to a large crowd. The best-selling author would tell himself he was sure he was going to do a bad job ...

"Belief in the end of the world is surprisingly common across America, and it's significantly influencing how people interpret and respond to the most pressing threats facing humanity," says Matthew I ...

In pre-modern China, the emperor was the supreme leader in Confucianism. With a divine mandate, he controlled religions in an authoritarian manner. Today’s China controls institutions and believers, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Welcome to Foreign Policy's China Brief. This week, we're taking a step back from the news cycle to explore the rich history of ...