東方仏教徒協会(EBS)
公開講演会
「Who Owns Buddhism?Postcolonialism, Decolonialization and the Study of Religion」

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  • 日程
  • 時間

    18:00~19:30(JST)

  • 会場
    zoomによるオンライン開催
  • 参加費
    無料
  • 講師 ヨン・ボルプ氏(オーフス大学准教授)

  • 講演会は英語で行われます

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公開講演会講題「Who Owns Buddhism?Postcolonialism, Decolonialization and the Study of Religion」

講師 ヨン・ボルプ氏(オーフス大学准教授)

概要

The comparative study of religion has traditionally been embodied in Eurocentric enlightenment ideals ofrationality,
individualism, secularity and evolutionism.
It has furthermore been framed by ‘Protestant’ understandings of religion with a focus on texts, doctrines,
belief and with a sharp division between sacred and secular. As an intellectual critique of Western hegemony,
postcolonialism (including that of Japanese scholars) has already pointed to the power relations and distorted
framings of the field.
Since its ‘discovery’, Buddhism in the Western gaze has served as a remote reflection of Western culture in
its relations to ‘otherness’.
Postcolonial critique of the general study of religion is thus also directly related to the study of Buddhism
and Buddhology.
The concept of ‘Buddhism’ as well as its designation as a ‘religion’ has been claimed to be a modern
Western construction,and the Western focus on canonical texts, doctrines, philosophy as well as on elite and
monastic Buddhism has been criticized for expressing Orientalism and a Eurocentric bias.
The study of Buddhism in Japan is thus an interesting field, being both influenced by ‘Western’ modernity
ideals and itself being embodied in colonizing modernity,
with both scholars and monks participating in transnational networks and interactions between people, practices and ideas.
The decolonial study of religion rests on postcolonialism, but goes even further. Not just by including
other parts of the world,but also by adding imperatives of social change and engaged scholarship combined
with intersectionalist identity politics questioning the ‘white-washing’ of research.
Decolonial critique is still in the making within both the general study of religion and Buddhism, and mainly performed in North America.
‘Woke’ scholarship asks for:less focus on white men, Western theories, universalism, secular ideas, rational thought,
individualism and canonical texts in exchange for:
more particularized and diversity-oriented knowledge systems, subjective experience, religious knowledge,
theoretical orientations based on identity and not least a more socially engaged scholarship.
In the presentation I will describe this new turn in the study of Buddhism and religion,
and invite to discussions of its potentialities and risks, including its relevance in a Japanese context.

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申込期間:2022年5月30日(月)12:00(JST)まで

  • 開催日時
    2022年5月.31日(火)18:00~19:30(JST)
  • 場所
    zoomによるオンライン開催
  • 参加費
    無料
  • 主  催
    東方仏教徒協会
  • 講  師
    ヨン ボルプ氏(オーフス大学准教授)
  • 申込方法

    参加をご希望の方は、上記申込フォームよりお申し込みください。
    zoomのミーティングID・PWは開催日前日にメールにてお送りいたします。

    申込期間:2022年5月30日(月)12:00(JST)まで

  • 備  考
    講演会は英語で行われます。