比较宗教学的先期实践——理雅各与《中国之信仰》

An Early Approach to the Science of Religion——James Legge and His "The Religions of China"

文章通过对19世纪英国传教士理雅各《中国之信仰》的解读和分析，试图了解他作为儒家经典的重要英文本译者，如何从基督教立场出发，对于儒家思想进行独特的理解和分析，认为中国在远古是有一神教崇拜的，而后来这种信仰丢失了；并从比较宗教学的立场将儒家与基督教相比较，反驳了儒家完全不是宗教的说法。

Through a review on the work “The Religions of China” by James Legge, a well-known missionary, scholar and translator of important Confucian classics, the thesis tries to analyzes his understanding of Confucianism, that is, his unique understanding from the position of a Christian in which Legge concluded that there had been a monotheism in ancient China but it disappeared later, and points out that his comparison of Confucianism with Christianity repudiated the idea that Confucianism had nothing to do with religion.