华东师范大学(哲学社会科学版) ›› 2013, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (6): 107-115.

• 社会学研究 • 上一篇    下一篇

人间佛教发展过程中的世俗化问题辨析

唐忠毛   

  1. 华东师范大学学报编辑部暨华东师范大学社会发展学院,上海,200062
  • 出版日期:2013-11-15 发布日期:2014-02-24
  • 通讯作者: 唐忠毛
  • 作者简介:唐忠毛
  • 基金资助:

    本文系国家社科基金重大项目(11&DZ117)与国家社科基金一般项目(13BZJ008)的阶段性成果。

On the Secularization in the Development of the Worldly Buddhism

TANG Zhong-mao   

  • Online:2013-11-15 Published:2014-02-24
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摘要: “人间佛教”自太虚首倡,经印顺、赵朴初等人的发展,已成为中国佛教的主流思潮及其谋求自身与现代社会相适应的现代化发展路径;但是,在当下人间佛教的发展过程中,围绕“世俗化”问题也产生了诸多的争论与质疑。究其原因,不仅因为“世俗化”一词本身充满了歧义,同时也因为不同的论者在使用“世俗化”一词时基于不同的理论立场和具体语境。有的论者在言及中国佛教“世俗化”时,仅局限于中国佛教自身的汉语历史语境,而无视现代性理论提供的宏大背景;有的论者则立足于西方宗教社会学的立场,而无视中国佛教与西方宗教形态的差异性;而有的论者则持受世俗化与宗教性两相对立的立场;凡此种种。因此,澄清“世俗化”一词的概念史背景与不同言说语境,进而对人间佛教发展过程中有关“世俗化”问题进行辨析、澄清,不仅有助于人间佛教的理论建设,也有益于中国佛教的未来发展。

关键词: 人间佛教, 世俗化, 商业化, 庸俗化

Abstract: The “worldly Buddhism”, first promoted by Taixu and then developed by Yinshun and Zhao Puchu et al, has become the mainstream in Chinese Buddhism and been taken as a pattern accustomed to modern society. However, the current development of the worldly Buddhism has engendered various arguments and doubts centered on “secularization”. This is due to the fact that the word “secularization” itself has various interpretations, and different observers hold different stances and apply the word “secularization” in different contexts. In talking about the “secularization” of Chinese Buddhism, some observers are confined in the Chinese historical context of Chinese Buddhism with ignorance of the grand backdrop provided by theories of modernity; some believe in some Western religious sociology while neglect the difference between Chinese Buddhism and Western religions; others insist that secularization and religion are opposite to each other. Hence, it is conducive to the theoretical construction of the worldly Buddhism and the future development of Chinese Buddhism to clarify the conceptual history of the word “secularization” and its different contexts, and further to analyze and clear up the “secularization” issue in the development of the worldly Buddhism.