Religious Studies: A Global View

Of course, these publications included many hasty and crude works, and sometimes authors simply copied from one another. Neverth ...

‘religious culture’ (Zongjiao Wenhua), appearing in places ranging from academic monographs to advertising posters, demonstrate ...

A few scholars, however, have held that Confucianism is a religion, or at least has been a religion since the time of the Han Em ...

language’, sometimes loosely translated ‘theology in Chinese’. This idea is only discussed by academics who are interested or en ...

of faith and theology (Lai 2000, Liu 1995). Many scholars from the mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and even the US took part in the ...

(g) Last but not least is the development of the history of religion in China. In comparison with all of the other disciplines i ...

iceberg of demand for such projects. From the 1980s on, more and more young people have become so interested in observing Christ ...

No one aware of the disasters of the past will expect that religious studies will continue to prosper without a struggle. The mo ...

fucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism. Confucianism was a code of morality, an ideology, and a ‘religion’. Daoism also had a strong in ...

is impossible to deny that these writings were published in order not so much to recognize others as to justify oneself. Their p ...

However, the strange words and concepts became the categories and concepts which functioned as criteria for the cognition of thi ...

Japanese Mythology’ (1930) were representative (Jang Suk-man 2004). He also tried to clarify the origin of Korean ‘religion’ fro ...

In the 1960s, many publications appeared which engaged in apologetics for each religion using more elaborate modern terms relate ...

discourse. The historical study of the conflict between Confucianism and Catholicism also expanded its concerns to include cross ...

Religion and Culture (Institute of Religious Studies, SNU), Journal of Korean Religions(Institute of Religious Studies, Sogang U ...

terminological shift implies above all that each religion and its ‘theology’ are nothing more than data that should be scrutiniz ...

Regional research is also expanding. Interest in Japanese and Chinese religions is increasing (Lim 2002; Park K. 2005; Park M. 1 ...

epistemology of religion sublating pre-modernity, modernity, and postmodernity all at once. NOTES 1 Some modern scholars underst ...

—— 1996b, ‘Hanyu Shenxue de Fangfa yu Jinlu’ (The methods in and approaches to the theology in Han language), in Yeung 2000, pp. ...

Ng Peter, et al. 2005, Shengshan Jiaoxia de Shizijia(Christianity at the foot of Mount Tai), Hong Kong: Institute of Sino-Christ ...