走向跨文化宗教学——以雷蒙·潘尼卡为例看一种范式转向

Toward a Kind of Cross-Cultural Religiology:A Transformation of Paradigm

追溯宗教学史可以发现,有两条相互分歧的研究路线:一条主张科学主义的路线,倾向于科学地、批判地、历史地和比较地研究宗教;另一条则倾向于宗教学的实践功能,认为促进各宗教之间的交流和对话、改善它们之间的关系是宗教学的主要任务。后一条路线以宗教间关系为研究之起点和目标,从中可以引出我们所寻求的跨文化方法。当代跨文化研究的先驱雷蒙.潘尼卡的相关思想,经由梳理,可以从跨文化意识和跨文化方法(包括"历地解释学"、"对话的对话"、寻找"形式相似的等价物"等)两方面为我们竖立起跨文化宗教学的某种样态。

Since religiology was founded as a discipline,its intercultural and cross-cultural nature and accordingly,a method which is appropriate for this nature,have not been commonly recognized and taken seriously.By reviewing the history of religiology,we can find that there are two divergent lines of research: one is scientistic and tends to study religion scientifically,critically,historically and comparatively,while the other tends to stress the practical role of religiology and see promoting the dialogue between religions and improving their relationship as its main task.The latter line begins with and ends in the interreligious relationship and therefore it is possible to lead to a kind of cross-cultural approach that we are now exploring.Raimon Panikkar,a pioneer of contemporary cross-cultural studies,can offer a form of cross-cultural religiology from two aspects: cross-cultural awareness and cross-cultural methods(including'diatopical hermeneutics,''dialogical dialogue,'seeking'homeomorphic equivalent').