The Copernican Turn in the Study of Religion
The Copernican Turn in the Study of Religion
复制标题
宗教研究的哥白尼转向
DOI：
10.1163/15700682-12341280
复制
发表时间：
2013
影响因子：
0.6
通讯作者：
R. King
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
R. King
当代宗教研究中的理论争论反映了一系列批判理论的影响，这些理论受到女权主义、后结构主义、后殖民主义和“酷儿”观点的启发。他的大部分作品反映了后康德关于现实的社会建构概念的激进化。有人认为，这些理论代表了康德认识论项目的社会和文化含义的展开，反映了类似的“哥白尼转向”，涉及到认识到研究对象——“宗教”是一个反映研究者方法论和理论假设的结构。然后，本文对该领域的主流“世俗主义”史学提出了后殖民批评，并提出了一种理解宗教比较研究领域的历史和未来的替代模式，该模式以比较文化批判的实践和对现代性主流模式的评论为基础。
Abstract Contemporary theoretical debates within the study of religion reflect the impact of a range of critical theories inspired by feminist, poststructuralist, postcolonial and “queer” perspectives on the field. Much of this work reflects a radicalization of a post-Kantian notion of the social construction of reality. It is argued that such theories represent an unfolding of the social and cultural implications of the Kantian epistemological project and reflects a similar “Copernican Turn” involving the recognition that the object of study—“religion,” is a construct reflecting the methodological and theoretical assumptions of the researcher. The article then offers a postcolonial critique of mainstream “secularist” historiographies of the field and argues for an alternative model for understanding the history and future of the field of the comparative study of religion, grounded in the practice of comparative cultural critique and commentary on dominant models of modernity.