Religious Studies: A Global View

where it does exist as an autonomous field of study; it is a historically recent phenomenon. How does one theorize this vacuum? ...

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6 Continental East Asia He Guanghu, Chung Chin-hong, and Lee Chang-yick* CHINA The prehistory, emergence, and disappearance of r ...

China The prehistory, emergence, and disappearance of religious studies in China P REHISTORY. THE CHINESE WORD FOR ‘religion’ is ...

The trend of Enlightenment thought, strengthened by its Western counterpart and by modern science, helped generate skeptical and ...

Christian scholars such as Wu Lei-chuan (1870–1944), Xu Bao-qian (1892– 1944), Liu Ting-fang (1892–1947), Xie Fu-ya (1892–1991), ...

Religions (IWR) in Beijing, which many years later became the largest center for religious studies. But in the 1960s and 1970s, ...

In 1978, with the restoration of colleges, universities and other academic institutions, the Institute of World Religions, which ...

In the early 1980s, the primary obstacle in the way of religious studies was the general, absolutely negative attitude towards r ...

phenomenon in history’ (Lu 1989), ‘Religious phenomena are closely connected with the cultural phenomena of mankind’ (Fang 1988) ...

Of course, some scholars disagreed with statements such as ‘religion is culture’, maintaining that a religion constitutes the sp ...