人类学视野中的民族宗教研究方法论探析

An Exploration of the Method for the Study of the Ethnic Religion:A View of Anthropology

本文扼要介绍了改革开放以来中国民族宗教研究领域的发展状况,阐述了宗教研究与文化研究相结合的理论视角的重要意义,强调了民族学人类学基础理论的指导作用,旨在探讨并论证中国民族宗教研究领域研究方法创新的必要性和可能途径。笔者推出的宗教文化类型理论是一种历史与现实并举、宏观与微观共进、动态与静态结合的综合性研究方法,展示了继承传统、引进西学、自主创新的有效途径以及民族宗教研究的广阔前景。

This paper introduces briefly the development of the study of Chinese ethnic religion after the reform and opening-up. The author elaborates great importance to combine the method of religious with cultural study and emphasis the instructive role of basic ethnological and anthropological theory. The paper’s aim is to explore and demonstrate the necessity and possible means of new method in the field. The theory of religious cultural typology is a comprehensive method combining history with reality, macroscopic with microscopic level, dynamic and static state. The method can be a effective way to inherit tradition, and introduce the west theories, to the independent innovation. The study of ethnic religion with the method has vast potential.