The Academic Study of 'Indigenous Religions': The History, Use and Defence of a Contested Category

“本土宗教”的学术研究：一个有争议的类别的历史、使用和辩护

• 批准号: 113039/1
• 负责人: James Cox
• 金额: $ 1.79万
• 依托单位: University of Edinburgh
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2006 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=113039%2F1
• 关键词: Academic; Study; Indigenous; Religions; History

The academic study of Indigenous religions developed historically from missiological and anthropological sources, but little analysis has been devoted to this classification within departments of religious studies. The University of Edinburgh recently introduced an undergraduate specialisation in Indigenous Religions with courses covering African, the Pacific, India and New Religious Movements, inferring that Indigenous Religions can be studied as a discrete unit. By evaluating this assumption in the light of case studies drawn from Zimbabwe, Alaska and shamanic traditions, and in view of current debates over 'primitivism', this study mounts a defence for the scholarly use of this category.

土著宗教的学术研究发展历史上从传教和人类学的来源，但很少有分析一直致力于宗教研究部门内的这种分类。爱丁堡大学最近推出了一个本科专业，在土着campaignons与课程涵盖非洲，太平洋，印度和新的宗教运动，推断土着campaignons可以作为一个独立的单位进行研究。通过评估这一假设，从津巴布韦，阿拉斯加和萨满教传统的案例研究，并在目前的辩论“原始主义”，本研究安装了一个防御的学术使用这一类。