法制史视野下的近代中国宗教史研究综述与展望

Prospects and Research Summary of Modern Chinese Religious History from the Perspective of Legal History

新世纪之前,学界对宗教史的研究倾向于从思想文化史、社会史等路径解读。近年来,随着地方司法诉讼档案的陆续开放,对宗教史的研究开始从法制史角度进行了新的关注和探索,出现了一股对宗教史研究的法制史转向热潮。研究特点出现区域化与个案化的趋势,研究方法多采用量化史学与跨学科的方法,研究资料倾向于使用地方司法档案,研究内容分别从宗教法与宗教政策、宗教与政法关系、庙产问题等法制史视角对宗教史展开考察,重点剖析了宗教与国家、法律之间的复杂关系。

Before the new century,the study of religious history in academia has a preference of interpreting in terms of history of ideology and culture and social history.In recent years,with the opening of local judicial litigation archives,researches on the history of religion began to attract new attention and exploration from the perspective of legal history,an upsurge emerges in the study of legal history which is characterized by regionalized and individualized researches.The research methods are mostly quantitative historiography and inter-disciplinary,and the research materials tend to use local judicial archives.The academia respectively investigates the religious history from the perspective of legal history such as religious law and policy、the relationship between religion and politics and law、the problem of temple property and so on which focuses on the complex relationship among religion,state and law.