Word: taoism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major religions of Singapore are Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Christianity and Taoism...
...tasteful capital letters elevate this football match into something vaguely historic, like The Hundred Years War. The Game is capitalized, as if it were a philosophy like Taoism or a nation like America...
...Hung also turned to traditional Chinese philosophy in his search for some stability in a "country that was like a madhouse." He studied Taoism, which holds as its central principle that power lies in the mind, in the self, and not in action. "I don't think I achieved the inner peace of the Taoists, but I tried," remembers Wu Hung...
Tens of millions-perhaps hundreds of millions-of Chinese adhere to the ancient faiths of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, which are cultural as well as spiritual forces. Islam has been deeply entrenched for centuries. Though China has been a special preoccupation of U.S. and European missionaries since the late 19th century, less than 1% of China's 1 billion people are Christians today...