Terminology and Religious Identity:: Buddhism and the Genealogy of the Term Zongjiao
Terminology and Religious Identity:: Buddhism and the Genealogy of the Term Zongjiao
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术语与宗教认同:佛教与宗教一词的谱系
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2012
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Francesca Tarocco
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T. Barrett;Francesca Tarocco
This chapter discusses the Buddhist bias intrinsic in the choice of the new term zongjiao to designate official discourse on religion in the twentieth century. The chapter offers a step towards a fuller account of the history of the term that gives due weight to the crucial but complex developments in the mid-nineteenth century. The author believes that these developments, while they resulted in the adoption by so many contemporary language users, for better or worse, of a term now regarded as their word corresponding to ?religion', may be seen as pointing to a background in earlier discourse on religious topics. A close look at the evidence does not suggest a neologism especially coined to meet the needs of contact with the West, and so conveying no more and no less than the connotations of the word in Europe and America, but something much more nuanced. Keywords:America; Buddhist bias; Europe; religious identity; zongjiao