Studies on the Interrelation between Science and Religion

近年来，科学与宗教关系的研究呈现出显著的发展。特别是，由于科学和宗教作为完全不同的领域之间的明确区别，我们不需要重新讨论它们之间的冲突或对话关系，而可以将更深入地重新考虑它们都是人类行为的努力确定为最近的一个新趋势。基于科学史上最近的许多研究，这些研究指出，在西欧现代的开始。宗教与科学不仅相互交织，而且相互依存，相互促进。这一新趋势旨在进一步探究这种相互关系的真实的展开。我们的共同研究项目也遵循了同样的趋势，在这种批判意识和主旨的基础上，我们的研究项目围绕三个领域展开：第一，近现代西欧;第二，近现代犹太思想;第三，近现代日本。每个参与项目的研究者都可以沿着这三个研究领域设定自己的研究主题，并自由地进行。收集资料等。而且，通过对这种个人贡献的全面讨论。我们试图追寻科学与宗教之间动态相互关系的痕迹。在这一点上，这个研究项目的主要关注点已经成为宗教知识的实用性问题。我们认为，在一般的科学史研究中忽视了宗教知识的实践性，同时也考虑到知识本身（包括科学知识）的实践性，可以为更深层次地全面理解科学与宗教提供一个新的立足点。

In recent years, studies on the relationship between science and religion have shown a remarkable evolution. Particularly, rather than discussing anew the relation of conflict or dialogue between them due to the clear-cut distinction drawn between science and religon as completely different spheres, it is possible to identify as a new recent trend the effort to reconsider them more deeply in their being both human acts. Grounded on the recent many studies in the history of science which point out how, at the beginning of western Europe modern age. religion and science were not only deeply interwined but also in a relation of inter-dependence and reciprocal promotion. this new trend aims at further inquiring the real unfolding of such interrelationship. Our joint research project has been following the same tendency.While sharing such a critical consciousness and purport, our research project has been carried out within three areas of investigation, that is, first, western Europe in the modern and contemporary age, second.Jewish thought in the modern and contemporary age, and the third, modern and contemporary Japan. Each researcher participating to the project has been able to set his own research subject along these three areas of inquiring and carry it out freely. collecting material and so on. Moreover, through a comprehensive discussion of such individual contribution. we have tried to follow the traces of the dynamic inter-relationship between science and religion. At that point, the main concern of this research project has become the problem of the practical character of religious knowledge. While taking into general consideration such practical character of religious knowledge, so far overlooked by the studies on the history of science, together with the practical character of knowledge itself(including that of scientific knowledge), we think it possible to present a new standing-point for a deeper comprehensive understanding of both science and religion.