Maintains that Confucianism is important to Western philosophy and should not be narrowly conceived as an Eastern religion. Promoting multiculturalism through renewed East-West and Confucian-Christian dialogue, Neville (philosophy, religion, and theology, Boston U.) fosters the idea that the world is not a clash of civilizations but an entanglement worth sorting out. One of the most interesting topics is the notion of taking on multiple religious identities, as in the Three Schools Movement (Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism) or in the simultaneous practice of Christianity and Confucianism. Do Neville and his editors sense the West now ready to juxtapose Christian parable to Confucian analect, to practice a more Asian-style religious syncretization? Now that the West's recently educated have been exposed to pomo scholarship advancing and describing our late- capitalist, post-industrialist, polymorphous and rhizomatous identity constituted by the joyful sprouting and blossoming of multiple cultural performativities, Boston Confucians just might be on to something. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Read Less