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| Resonant Paradigms in the Study of Religions and the Emergence of Theravāda Buddhism | ||
| 作者 | Bretfeld, Sven |
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| 出處題名 | Religion |
| 卷期 | v.42 n.2 |
| 出版日期 | 2012.04 |
| 頁次 | 273 - 297 |
| 出版者 | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.tandf.co.uk/ |
| 出版地 | Abingdon, UK [阿賓登, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Author affiliations: Center for Religious Studies, Ruhr-University Bochum, Chair for Religious Studies; Member of the Käte Hamburger Consortium “Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe,” Ruhr-University Bochum Author biographies Sven Bretfeld studied Indology, Tibetology and Religious Studies in Marburg and Göttingen and studied Sinhala in Peradeniya (Sri Lanka). He received his PhD in Göttingen 2000; his thesis was entitled "Das singhalesische Nationalepos von König Dutthagamani Abhaya", supervised by Prof. Heinz Bechert. He has previously worked as Assistant at the Institute for the Science of Religion, University of Berne (Switzerland, 2001-2008). He has been in the post of Professor for Religious Studies at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany since 2008. |
| 關鍵詞 | Buddhism; Religious Studies; India; Sri Lanka; Tibet |
| 摘要 | Was Theravāda Buddhism actually invented in late colonial times? Was Buddhism in general constructed by Orientalists’ imagination and their will to intellectually subjugate foreign cultures under the concepts of ‘Western’ thought and ‘Western’ models of social differentiation? This article argues that we need complementary perspectives to understand the multilateral dynamics that produced our present knowledge of religion(s). In the case of Theravāda Buddhism, a unidirectional analysis conceals the dynamics of questions and responses that interrelate scholars and their field of study – including modern Buddhist representatives and uses of traditional resources of knowledge – to a complex of mutually resonating agencies. As this article will show, Theravāda Buddhism, as a modern religion and as a concept of historical analysis, has emerged from these relational processes rather than having been invented by unilateral scholarly projections upon blank screens of passive cultures. |
| ISSN | 0048721X (P); 10961151 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 95 |
| 建檔日期 | 2015.01.23 |
| 更新日期 | 2019.12.16 |
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