文化景观视角下的中国宗教名山研究:方法论与方法

The Methodology and Methods in the Research of Chinese Religious Mounts from the Perspectives of Cultural Landscape

宗教名山是中国文化景观的重要组成部分,是观察社会政治、文化过程的媒介,涉及地理学、历史学、风景园林学等相关学科。总结了西方宗教文化景观研究中蕴含的精神与实在、神圣与世俗、文化与自然三组辩证议题;分析相关议题中的研究方法论与方法;提出宗教名山作为社会文化建构的表征这一命题,建立该命题下的方法论框图,以期通过规范的方法论维护宗教名山定性研究的效度。

As one of the main types nominated on world heritage list in China, religious mounts communicate the local social, political and cultural processes and development. Religious mounts is in combination of the discipline of geography, history and landscape architecture. The paper concludes the dominant dialectic issues between spirituality and reality, culture and nature, sacred and secular in researches of western religious cultural landscapes, and analyzes the related methodologies and methods. The paper highlights the road map of methodology under the assertion of religious mounts are socially and culturally constructed, and accordingly, it can be referred to if the validity of similar qualitative researches are defended.