通往宗教人的神圣死亡路——浅评《入社礼的仪式与象征:关于生与再生的秘仪》

Divine Death Makes the Religious Man:A Brief Comment on Rites and Symb o ls of Ini tiation:The Mysteries of Birth and Rebirth

《入社礼的仪式与象征:关于生与再生的秘仪》是伊利亚德关于入社礼研究的重要著作。他在书中区分了三种不同的入社礼形式,并通过列举来自澳大利亚、美洲和古希腊等社会的入社礼仪式,对相关仪式与象征进行了深入解读。同时,以入社礼背后的死亡与再生观念为核心,对入社礼的个人意义和社会意义进行了详尽的分析,为比较宗教研究添上了一份丰富的材料。通过总结伊利亚德关于入社礼各类型和象征意义的分析,对其在书中通过死亡所体现的神圣辩证法进行解释,以期对原始人如何通过入社礼完成宗教人的位格转变有一个更为深刻的认识。

Rites and Symb ols of Initiation:The Mysteries of Birth and Rebirthis an important work of Mircea Eliade,which is about the meanings of initiation.In this book,Eliade points out that there are three patterns of initiation,and he discusses the main symbols of different kinds of initiation by mentioning rites of different societies,like the societies of Australia,America and Greece.This book also focuses on the concepts of death and rebirth which lives deep in the initiation,and discusses the importance of initiation to individuals and the society.It adds rich materials to the study of comparative religions.This article summarizes the main points of Eliade’s study of initiation,giving expression to the divine dialectics embodied by death and hopefully interpreting how a primitive man can become a religious man through the initiation.