عنوان

The Emergence of "Religious Studies" (zongjiaoxue) in Late Imperial and Republican China, 1890-1949

شماره

LA122806

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انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

The Emergence of "Religious Studies" (zongjiaoxue) in Late Imperial and Republican China, 1890-1949

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Christian Meyer

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

This article contextualizes the rise of "early religious studies in China" with its apex in the 1920s within the heated debates on the role of religion in a modern Chinese society. While the most recent development of religious studies (zongjiaoxue) in China (including Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan) is well known, its early emergence in the late Qing and Republican periods (ca. 1890-1949) has been a neglected topic. The author demonstrates first how antagonistic anti-religious and affirmative positions, received from Western modernization discourse and informed by the contested character of the concept of religion itself, led to the emergence of this new discipline in Republican China as a product of broader discourses on modernization. Secondly, the article evaluates the limited institutionalization of religious studies as a distinct "full" discipline in relation to the broader interdisciplinary "field" of research and public debates on religion. While the interdisciplinary character is typical of the field in general (also in the West), the limited degree of "full disciplinarity" depended on specific, local discursive and political factors of its time. As "religion" appears as an important modern discourse in East Asia, the early emergence of religious studies in China thereby reflects social, political, and intellectual transitions from Imperial to Republican China, and offers a unique perspective on Asian discourses on religious and secular modernities. This article contextualizes the rise of "early religious studies in China" with its apex in the 1920s within the heated debates on the role of religion in a modern Chinese society. While the most recent development of religious studies (zongjiaoxue) in China (including Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan) is well known, its early emergence in the late Qing and Republican periods (ca. 1890-1949) has been a neglected topic. The author demonstrates first how antagonistic anti-religious and affirmative positions, received from Western modernization discourse and informed by the contested character of the concept of religion itself, led to the emergence of this new discipline in Republican China as a product of broader discourses on modernization. Secondly, the article evaluates the limited institutionalization of religious studies as a distinct "full" discipline in relation to the broader interdisciplinary "field" of research and public debates on religion. While the interdisciplinary character is typical of the field in general (also in the West), the limited degree of "full disciplinarity" depended on specific, local discursive and political factors of its time. As "religion" appears as an important modern discourse in East Asia, the early emergence of religious studies in China thereby reflects social, political, and intellectual transitions from Imperial to Republican China, and offers a unique perspective on Asian discourses on religious and secular modernities.

تاريخ نشر

2015

توصيف ظاهري

40-75

عنوان

Numen

شماره جلد

62/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5276

اصطلاح موضوعی

comparative religion

اصطلاح موضوعی

history of religions

اصطلاح موضوعی

late Qing dynasty

اصطلاح موضوعی

religious studies in Asia

اصطلاح موضوعی

republican China 1912-1949

اصطلاح موضوعی

science of religion

اصطلاح موضوعی

Shūkyōgaku

اصطلاح موضوعی

zongjiaoxue

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Christian Meyer

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15685276-12341355

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y