Religious Studies: A Global View

Choi Jongseong 2002, A Study on the National Ritual of Musokin the Joseon Con- fucian Society, Seoul: Iljisa. Chung Chin-hong 19 ...

—— 1997, Pocheon Topography, Pocheon, GyeongGi-Do: Committee of Pocheon Topography. —— 1998, Lectures on the History of Religiou ...

—— 2006, ‘Understanding about religions and religious terms in North Korea’, Studies in Religion, vol. 42, pp. 67–101. Shin Kwan ...

7 Japan Satoko Fujiwara Prehistory 193 Emergence 195 Developments until 1945 196 Major ideas and problems 196 Key thinkers and t ...

T HE TASK OF TELLING THE HISTORY of religious studies in Japan to international readers requires that I first explain the countr ...

from the religious ‘others’. Whereas for Western scholars of the third type such ‘others’ have been religious people in the non- ...

The Japanese word for ‘religion’, shkyÿ, was also coined at the beginning of the era as a translation of the Western term. This ...

development in methodology, in contrast to the West, where the methodologies of the humanities and social sciences were polished ...

‘religious’, according to the newly adopted concept of religion. It was under these circumstances that religious studies gradual ...

In these discussions, the Japanese scholars of religion characterized ‘religion’ in contrast to other categories such as educati ...

centered, that is, oriented to subjective experience.^14 For example, in ‘The Skeleton of a Philosophy of Religion’, an essay in ...

Kyoto Imperial University, justified Japanese imperialism with their ideas of Buddhism as postmodern, post-Western wisdom. Schol ...

Nishida’s philosophy was a part of modern Buddhist studies, which began during the Meiji era. Its mainstream was textual studies ...

while the Department of Buddhist Studies focused on Buddhist textual studies and dogmatics.^19 A similar division of academic la ...

neighboring fields began only after World War II. The related field most worth mentioning here is Japanese folklore studies, fou ...

more, shortly after the war, new religious movements started developing out of drastic social changes in Japan. Although numerou ...

different characteristics. First, the Japanese scholarly view of religion tends to center on ritual rather than myths.^21 Studyi ...

The counterculture movements led to postmodernism in the 1980s. The trend was best embodied in Shinichi Nakazawa (b. 1950), a sc ...

take an instance, Noriyoshi Tamaru (b. 1931) proposed ‘the philosophy of religious studies’, which meant critical reflections up ...

Meanwhile, the first comprehensive dictionary with a focus on theories and technical terms of religious studies, Shkyÿgakujiten ...