epistemology of religion sublating pre-modernity, modernity, and postmodernity
all at once.
NOTES
1 Some modern scholars understand san-jiaoas ‘three religions’, but the majority
view is that it simply means ‘three teachings’ or ‘three ways of cultivation’
(because they argue that Confucianism is not a religion). I actually favor the
former understanding (He 1999, 4–6, 20–22).
2 The following incomplete statistics give some impression of the speed of growth:
Year 1985 1991 1996
Articles Published 1,103 2,024 3,000
Cf. Index of Religious Articles in Mainland China, vol. 1, ed. Wang Lei-quan,
Taipei, 1985 and the 1996 Annual of Religious Studies in China, ed. Cao
Zhongjian, Beijing, 1998.
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