عنوان

"Religious" as a Category:

شماره

LA122886

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انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

"Religious" as a Category:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

A Comparative Case Study

نام نخستين پديدآور

Robert Ford Campany

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Rightly noting that premodern non-Western cultures lacked a version of the modern Western category of "the religious," some scholars have proposed simply abandoning it. Meanwhile, other scholars continue to wield it uncritically. In this article I propose a middle way, using premodern China as an example. Although China had no category exactly matching "the religious" in meaning and scope, it did, I argue, have an analogous category, one that functioned somewhat similarly in a partially analogous discourse that, like the Western category, formed part of an imperial project. More generally, I suggest that we do well to inquire into the extent to which the cultures we study possessed analogues to the categories and concepts in terms of which we characterize them, rather than assume either that they did or that they did not. Rightly noting that premodern non-Western cultures lacked a version of the modern Western category of "the religious," some scholars have proposed simply abandoning it. Meanwhile, other scholars continue to wield it uncritically. In this article I propose a middle way, using premodern China as an example. Although China had no category exactly matching "the religious" in meaning and scope, it did, I argue, have an analogous category, one that functioned somewhat similarly in a partially analogous discourse that, like the Western category, formed part of an imperial project. More generally, I suggest that we do well to inquire into the extent to which the cultures we study possessed analogues to the categories and concepts in terms of which we characterize them, rather than assume either that they did or that they did not.

تاريخ نشر

2018

توصيف ظاهري

333-376

عنوان

Numen

شماره جلد

65/4

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5276

اصطلاح موضوعی

analogy

اصطلاح موضوعی

anomaly

اصطلاح موضوعی

categories in the study of religion

اصطلاح موضوعی

Chinese religions

اصطلاح موضوعی

cross-cultural comparison

اصطلاح موضوعی

medieval China

اصطلاح موضوعی

the history of the study of religions

اصطلاح موضوعی

the religious as the anomalous

اصطلاح موضوعی

the Western study of religions

اصطلاح موضوعی

zhiguai

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Robert Ford Campany

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15685276-12341503

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y