Pub Date : 2020-06-09DOI: 10.1163/9789004435025_012
Angus Nicholls
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Pub Date : 2020-06-09DOI: 10.1163/9789004435025_004
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Pub Date : 2020-06-09DOI: 10.1163/9789004435025_017
R. Segal
Robert A. Segal defines “myth” succinctly as a story—related to “personalities” either qua “agents or the objects of actions”—which “accomplishes something significant for adherents” (2015: 3–5). In the given sense, there is one particular story that many religious traditions embrace at their core, which I would like to call the “myth of the millennium.” This paper takes into focus a specific coloring of the myth that is salient particularly among East Asian new religious movements (NRMs); that is to say, the millenarian myth espoused by East Asian NRMs is more often than not articulated in ethnocentric terms. This paper will comparatively delineate various ethnocentrized manifestations of the myth in East Asian new religiosity. Before I start outlining selected cases, several terms need to be clarified— “East Asia,” “NRM,” “millenarianism” and “millennium,” as well as “ethnocentrism.” As I have argued elsewhere (Pokorny and Winter 2018: 4–6), from the perspective of Cultural Studies, I understand “East Asia” as “the part of Asia whose socio-cultural anatomy is conspicuously characterised” by the Chinese discursive archive “inscribed through a millennia-long unfolding process in substantial parts of today’s nation-states of China and Taiwan, Japan, South and North Korea, and Vietnam.” “NRMs” are religious communities that have emerged institutionally distinct since the early or mid-nineteenth century, a time when—larger in numbers than ever before—“novel religious programmes were devised inhaling a transformative spirit moulded by the surrounding discourse and the new paradigm of (unfolding) modernity,” marked by industrialization, colonialism, and glocalization (ibid.: 7). My use of “millenarianism” draws upon the definition offered by Catherine Wessinger (2011: 5), and is, like any other Religious Studies definition of millenarianism, indebted to Norman Cohn (2004: 13). It is the vision of a salvational transformation of the current world order, through which (at least) the faithful will experience well-being. The change will (substantially) come to fruition imminently and in accordance with a transcendent blueprint, either laid out by a superhu-
罗伯特·a·西格尔(Robert a . Segal)将“神话”简洁地定义为与“人格”相关的故事，即“行为主体或行为对象”——“对追随者来说完成了一些重要的事情”(2015:3-5)。在给定的意义上，有一个特殊的故事是许多宗教传统的核心，我想称之为“千年神话”。本文着重研究了在东亚新兴宗教运动中特别突出的神话色彩;也就是说，东亚新农主义者所信奉的千年神话往往是用种族中心主义的术语来表达的。本文将比较地描绘东亚新宗教中神话的各种民族中心化表现。在我开始概述所选案例之前，需要澄清几个术语——“东亚”、“新民族主义”、“千禧年主义”和“千年主义”，以及“种族中心主义”。正如我在其他地方所论述的(Pokorny and Winter 2018: 4-6)，从文化研究的角度来看，我将“东亚”理解为“亚洲的一部分，其社会文化解剖明显地以中国话语档案为特征”，这些档案是在中国和台湾、日本、韩国和朝鲜以及越南等当今民族国家的大部分地区经过长达千年的展开过程而被记录下来的。“新千年主义”是自19世纪早期或中期以来出现的制度上独特的宗教团体，当时的人数比以往任何时候都多，“新的宗教项目被设计出来，吸收了由周围话语和(正在展开的)现代性的新范式塑造的变革精神”，以工业化、殖民主义和全球本土化为标志(同上:7)。我对“千禧年主义”的使用借鉴了凯瑟琳·韦辛格(2011)提供的定义:5)，并且，像任何其他宗教研究对千禧年主义的定义一样，要感谢诺曼·科恩(2004:13)。这是对当前世界秩序的救赎性转变的愿景，通过这种转变，(至少)信徒将体验到幸福。这种变化(实质上)将很快实现，并按照一个超越的蓝图，要么由一个超级英雄制定
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Pub Date : 2020-06-09DOI: 10.1163/9789004435025_010
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Pub Date : 2020-06-09DOI: 10.1163/9789004435025_014
Roderick Main
In his extensive work on the theories of myth, Robert Segal makes a broad distinction between nineteenth-century theories, which saw myths as primitive attempts to explain the physical world and hence as now superseded by modern science, and twentieth-century theories of myth, which saw myths as serving other purposes than explanation of the physical world and hence as not necessarily incompatible with modern science. Segal suggests that the challenge for twenty-first century theories of myth is to find ways of seeing myths as explanatory of the physical world in a way that is also compatible with modern science. The present chapter focuses on one such approach that Segal discusses: Carl Gustav Jung’s psychological theory of myth when it is allied with his concept of synchronicity. After clarifying the criteria that need to be satisfied for, in Segal’s phrase, ‘bringing myth back to the world’, the chapter critically examines Segal’s own assessment of the Jungian approach in light of this challenge.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-09DOI: 10.1163/9789004435025_003
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