Global Religious History and Religious Comparison: a Programmatic Outline

Julian Strube
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This introduction outlines the contributions of Global Religious History, or Global History of Religion, to the issue of religious comparison. First, it argues for religious comparison as an integral part of religious studies that should not be abandoned but revised. Second, it addresses the larger framework of debates in religious studies and global history, arguing for the value of Global Religious History in avoiding Eurocentrism, but also tendencies within the postcolonial spectrum that mirror Eurocentric shortcomings. What is often perceived as a crisis in religious studies is understood here as an ongoing process of reflection and refinement that allows us to contextualize both the object of study and its researcher. Finally, this outline presents concrete elements that can inform revised approaches to religious comparison, including a genealogical method, entanglement and decentered historiography, and translingual practice. This allows us to expand our scope not only geographically, but also temporally.
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全球宗教史与宗教比较:计划大纲
本导论概述了《全球宗教史》或《全球宗教史》对宗教比较问题的贡献。首先,它认为宗教比较是宗教研究不可分割的一部分,不应放弃,而应加以修订。其次,它涉及宗教研究和全球史辩论的更大框架,论证了全球宗教史在避免欧洲中心主义方面的价值,同时也论证了后殖民范围内反映欧洲中心主义缺陷的倾向。通常被视为宗教研究中的危机,在这里则被理解为一个不断反思和完善的过程,它使我们能够将研究对象及其研究者都纳入背景之中。最后,本大纲提出了一些具体要素,可以为宗教比较的修订方法提供参考,包括系谱学方法、纠缠和非中心史学以及跨语言实践。这使我们不仅可以在地理上,而且可以在时间上扩大我们的研究范围。
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