COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES ON,SACRED TEXTS,AND THEIR INTERPRETATIONS IN PRIMAL RELIGIOUS TRADITION

在世界各种宗教文明的形成过程中，宗教典籍发挥了极其重要的作用。在这项联合研究中，我们全面研究了文学和口头传播的神圣文本，试图阐明宗教思想和思想渗透到普通人生活中的各种过程。以往关于神圣文本的著作往往以文献学传统为基础，围绕着对特定文本本身形成过程的批判性考察。只有非常有限的关注文本是如何被某些社会阶层接受的，以及在某些社会语境中的位置。在这一联合研究中，与传统方法一样，将某些神圣文本传播的社会背景及其对普通人生活和思想的影响视为神圣文本研究整体方案的一个重要方面。换句话说，我们的目标是将神圣文本的研究作为与社会历史相结合的新型思想史的一个例子。通过这一共同研究，我们也可以找到一些线索，重新审视神圣文本本身的概念，并重建神圣文本理论的框架。这项研究的主要结果已编辑为研究报告，并将于1998年春季出版。

Sacred texts have playd extremely important roles in the formation of various religious civilizations of the world. In this joint research by studying both literary and orally transmitted sacred texts comprehensively, we have attempted to clarify the variety of processes through which religious ideas and thought have penetrated into the life of the ordinaty people. Previous works on the sacred texts tended to center around the critical examination, based on the philological tradition, of the formation process of the specific text itself. Only very limited amount of attention have been paid to the way how the texts are received by cartain social strata and located within some social contexts. In this joint research, along with the traditional approach, social contexts of the transmission of the certain sacred text and its influence on the life and thought of the ordinary people are regarded as an essential aspect of the whole scheme of the study of the sacred texts. In other words we have aimed at the study of the sacred texts as an example of the new type of history of ideas which is integrated with social hisotory. We could also find some clues to reexamine the concept of the sacred text itself as well as to rebuild the framework of the theory of the sacred taxts through this joint research. The main findings of this research was edited as a study report, and the selected papers will be published as a volume in the spring of 1998.