Writing Times and Spaces Together: Experiments to Create an Early Sino-Buddhist Historiography. Beiträge zur Kultur und Geistesgeschichte Asiens|Religion in China Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Klasse 862. Band|
Year: 2015
Type: book
Abstract: O ne of the most interesting kinds of processes in the history of to a new cultural environment.Numerous theoretical terms of religious studies are used to describe this process: synchretism, adaptation, change of paradigms, inculturation, ethno-religiosity and more.Expressed in these terms is the obvious shift of basic social, cultural, and religious notions that occurs when two cultural entities come into contact.This shift can be almost one-sided if the giving culture has a stronger impact on the reviving culture which has been on a lower cultural level before the contact.This was the case with the European tribal cultures such as the Celtic and Germanic when they came into contact initially with the Roman civilization, and later with Christianity.It is also the case with the peripheral nations of the Sinitic sphere, outstanding examples being Japan and Korea.What happened there is, at least as far as we can judge from the extant sources, that the receiv-lectual life.The case is different, however, when a historically mature culture culture borrowing from its cultural reservoir only selected items as, for example, China's adaptation of Buddhism from the Indian culture.Here it is quite fascinating to see what has been borrowed and how that which was borrowed has been changed or adapted to the already existing environment, a process usually called the "sinicization" (Greg-Religion in China
Author: Deeg, Max
Language: German
Topic: Indian and Buddhist Studies
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7072246040