Käte Hamburger Kolleg Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe
出版地
Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany [波鴻, 北萊茵-威斯特伐利亞, 德國]
資料類型
期刊論文=Journal Article
使用語言
英文=English
附註項
Author Affiliation: Missouri State University, USA.
關鍵詞
Buddhism; Missions; Sri Lanka; Japan; Polemics; Colonialism
摘要
The aim of this paper is to theorize broadly about how cultural encounters between Asian Buddhists and European Christians spurred various efforts to demarcate, systematize, and stabilize religious traditions. It focuses on the dynamics seen in Buddhist responses to contact situations from the sixteenth century onwards in Sri Lanka, Cambodia, and Japan in order to map out some patterns of interaction among these communities. Theories of cultural imitation and independence do not suffice to theorize interreligious encounters in these cases. Using select examples, this paper will contend that Asian Buddhists often responded to various kinds of European interventions by redefining and reimagining the Buddhist tradition in new ways in order to argue for its continued validity and to secure its stability in the face of external encounters and pressures.
目次
Abstract 2 Key Words 2 I. Historical Encounters between Buddhists and Christians 4 II. Dynamics of Demarcating Buddhism 14 III. Crystallizing Buddhism in Colonial Asia 26 IV. Dynamics and Stability in Modern Buddhism 35 Works cited 40
