中国大陆近30年来的宗教哲学之争及其学术贡献

Philosophical Debates of Religion over the Past 30 Years and Its Academic Achievements in Chinese Mainland

1978年以来的30年是中国宗教哲学兀然崛起和高歌猛进的30年。这不仅得益于中国改革开放的外部大环境,而且还直接得益于中国宗教哲学界的学术小环境,得益于中国宗教哲学界内部自由、宽松的学术气氛和百家争鸣的态势。近30来,中国宗教哲学领域的论争虽然比较频繁,但对中国宗教哲学研究真正起到推波助澜作用的则主要是关于"宗教鸦片论"的"南北战争"、"儒教是否宗教"之争以及"全球宗教哲学的本体论"之争。我们应在对这三次宗教哲学之争作出具体考察的基础上,对其在中国当代宗教哲学发展史上的推动和促进作用作比较深入的分析。

In the past 30 years, Chinese philosophy of religion has got a great development, one reason of which consists in the philosophical debates in this field. Of these debates, there are three debates with special significances. They are the debate about whether religion is opium or not, the debate about whether Confucianism is a religion or not, and the debate about the ontology of the global philosophy of religion. This paper examines the three debates concretely, and analyzes their important functions in the developing history of Chinese contemporary philosophy of religion.