Comparative religious study of mission and conversion : Modernity, Religion and Colonialism

对“传播”与“皈依”的研究是一个尝试性的课题，它试图将再现的危机转化为学术的契机，以重新审视各宗教传统自发延伸的逻辑，并由此考察其历史境遇。其主要目的是：1）在一种新的类型学基础上，重新建构一个更为合适的“宗教”概念（正统和正统）而不是旧的种族中心主义（一神论与多神论）; 2）以民族主义、殖民主义、东方主义等政治、经济、文化因素为背景，重新涵盖宗教研究的更广泛的研究课题。正是通过对各种历史案例的重新审视，我们在上一个项目年度举行了四次研究会议，产生了以下想法：关于传播和转换a）关于当地习俗和语言的传教过程的各种模式，B）非传教类型宗教的世界历史星座，c）向现代性转变的各种模式。宗教类型论a）基督教作为宗教的理想类型（实践与信仰的对等）B）佛教、伊斯兰教、印度教和神道教（正统和正统）c）日本的宗教模式和所谓的万物有灵论这些想法将为我们提供有价值的线索，以解决基于每个宗教无法解决的边界形象的局外人/局内人问题。

This research on "propagation" and "conversion" was a tentative project to turn the crisis of representation into an academic chance, in order to re-examine the logic of spontaneous extension of each religious tradition and to study the historical situations as a result. The main purposes were as follows:1) to re-construct a more suitable conception of "religion" on the basis of a new typology (orthodoxy & orthopraxy) instead of an old ethno-centric one (monotheism & polytheism), 2) to re-cover a wider range of research topics for religions study, with the dynamism of modernity contextualized on politico-econo-cultural factors such as nationalism, colonialism and orientalism.It was through the re-examination of various historical cases that our research meetings held four times as the last project year gave birth to the following ideas:On propagation and conversiona)various patterns of missionary process concerning the native customs and languages,b)world-historical constellation of non-missionary type religions,c)various patterns of conversions to modernities.On typology of relirionsa)Christianity as an ideal type of religion (equivalence of practice & belief)b)limits of comparative method for Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism and Shintoism (orthodoxy & orthopraxy)c)Japanese model for religion and so-called animismThese ideas will provide us with valuable leads to solve the outsider/insider problem based on the insoluble border image of each religion