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Author |
史維仁
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Source |
中華佛學學報=Chung-Hwa Buddhist Journal=Journal of Chinese Buddhist Studies
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Volume | n.1 |
Date | 1987.03 |
Pages | 327 - 367 |
Publisher | 中華佛學研究所=Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies |
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http://www.chibs.edu.tw/publication_tw.php?id=12
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Location | 新北市, 臺灣 [New Taipei City, Taiwan] |
Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
Language | 中文=Chinese; 英文=English |
Keyword | 宗教 |
Abstract | 本文探討西洋宗教學術研究的核心問題之一。作者依個人二十多年研究與教會的經驗,分析出宗教學術研究不僅是幫助別人理解宗教的有力工具,也會很自然地對研究者產生影響。第一,從西洋學術的角度研究宗教的人,因為開始與傳統的立場有了距離,就會失去原來的純真。從客觀角度理解宗教所引起的第二種影響,乃是透過學術理解宗教觀念,使得研究者承當起宗教相互溝通的使命。當一個人對解釋自己的信仰或宗教,以及別人的宗教負責時,宗教與宗教之間的溝通即會形成。開朗而誠懇的溝通,不僅會幫助我們理解別人的信仰,也將加深我們對本身信仰的認識。當一個人把一個他本身不信仰的宗教觀念,從客觀的角度解釋給一個有這種觀念但不清楚的人,使得他進一步理解時,他會發現:他不僅對別人的宗教用客觀的眼光來看待,而且因為這種万法已經變成他思惟的習慣,對自己的宗教也是一樣。身為學者的作者認為「信仰」是生活在這個世界上的熊度,而不是有意執持的一串教條。學者的生活也是一種「信仰」的生活,而宗教學者的使命是崇高的。
The present paper discusses one of the central problems of the western academic study of religion. Relating his experiences of research in and teaching of religious studies for more than two decades, the author analyzes how the academic study of religion is not only a powerful tool for understanding,but possesses a "recoil" mechanism which can affect its user.
The first thing that happens to one who adopts the western academic perspective is loss of innocence because one begins to distance oneself from the naivete of any traditonal perspective.
The second aspcet of the transforming effect of trying to understand religion "from the outside" is based on the academic idea of understanding which accepts the responsibility to communicate to others the meaning of what one understands. By taking the responsibility for both elucidating one's beliefs or tradition to outsiders and interpreting other traditions, interreligious dialouge is possible. Open and honest dialogue can change not only one's understanding of someone else's religon,but also that of one's own faith.
The third stage in the process of transforma- tion,which can be effect of studying religion, arises out of the realization that one's interpreta- tion,from the outside,of a point of view which one does not share,may help someone who shares that viewpoint to understand it better. At this point one discovers that one does not only look at the beliefs and religious traditions of others from the distance of phenomenological "suspense of judgement",but, having internalized this methodology,one even views one's own beliefs and tradition "from the outside."
As a scholar,the author understands "faith" as a mode of being in the world,and not a set of beliefs consciously held. The scholar's life,in his opinion,is a life of faith, and the vocation of a scholar in the field of religion is a high one. |
ISSN | 10177132 (P) |
Hits | 665 |
Created date | 1998.07.22
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Modified date | 2017.06.15 |
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