New Religion (8)—Thinking in Fives

A year ago on Round and Square (1 May 2012)—La Pensée Cyclique: Mulan Granet-d
Click here for the introduction to this series of "Religion in Modern China" posts.

[a] View from the peak of Mt. Tai RL

My new (weekly) column on the UK website "New Religion—Religion, Politics, Analysis" is up. This week I expanded upon my earlier columns on yin-yang, five-phase cosmology. I call it "Thinking in Fives." It is also my opportunity to introduce the writing of a peculiar world traveler named William Edgar Geil (1865-1925).
 

New Religion: Thinking in Fives

[b] Astronomical tower, Mt. Tai RL

All Weekly Columns
Everything
Syncretism
Unlucky Four
Temple of Heaven 
All Under Heaven 
Yin and Yang 
Five-Phase Cosmology
Thinking in Fives 

Most weeks, my column will be posted on Wednesdays.