Sacralisation of a Deity in the Tense of Popular Religion and Official Cult. The Case of Jinlong Si

根据汉学计划的第一阶段，神圣性的概念以及帝国晚期中国的神圣化过程再次成为关注的焦点，但现在需要从新的角度进行研究。因此，应该把金龙寺大王邪教的发展过程作为一个走向神圣化的过程来分析。在这里，薛旭的形象是非常重要的。在中国的语境中，他是一个人的神圣性的榜样，但也是一个询问一个人真正成为圣人的方式的问题。这是对中国和基督教关于圣人(“圣人”)的概念进行卓有成效的比较的一种有前途的方法。这一部分的研究目标之一将是晚清中国人格神圣观及其相关过程的理论发展。此外，本文还从正统思想受皇国影响和民间宗教信仰的影响两个方面对金龙四大王崇拜进行了分析。这些关系产生的紧张关系也可以在规范性宗教准则(由国家发布)和实际的邪教实践(更广泛意义上的大众宗教)的背景下进行审查，可以用来描述关于神圣性及其各自要求的不同观点。

In accordance with the first phase of the sinological project, notions of sacrality as well as the process of sacralization in Late Imperial China are again in the focus of interest but are now to be ex amined from new perspectives. Therefore a closer look is to be taken on the development of the cult of Jinlong Si Dawang which should be analyzed as a process leading to sacrality. Here the figure of Xue Xu is of great importance. He is to be taken as an example for the sacrality of a person in the Chinese context but also as a line of inquiry to ask about the way a person actually became holy. This is a promising approach to a fruitful comparison of Chinese and Christian concepts of holy persons (“saints”). The development of a theoretical conception of personal holiness and related processes in Late Imperial China will be one of the objectives for this part of the study. Furthermore the cult of Jinlong Si Dawang is also to be analyzed in terms of the relation of orthodoxy influenced both by the imperial state and popular religious beliefs. The tensions resulting from these relations, which can also be examined in the context of normative religious guidelines (issued by the state) and actual cultic practice (popular religion in a broader sense), can be used to describe differing ideas about sacrality and its respective demands.