Religion has played an important role in shaping civilizations, and influencing governance, culture, and societal structures.

Confucianism is often caricatured as being hierarchical, authoritarian, misogynistic, and dogmatic. I too once shared this view and thought it was concerned exclusively with hierarchies and social ...

This short film offers a look at Confucian beliefs about social hierarchy and the place of women. Dr Amanda Foreman ... a series of texts upon which Confucianism is based. She shows how the ...