立足中国、面向世界的宗教学

习近平总书记在《在哲学社会科学工作座谈会上的讲话》(2016年5月17日)中首次把宗教学列为11个需要"加快完善对哲学社会科学具有支撑作用的学科"之一。宗教学在"国家学科分类"里早已是"一级学科",但在"高校学位授予和人才培养学科目录"里却迟迟难以升格,这显然与我国教育界对宗教学的学科建设、特别是高校宗教学教育的认识程度有关。鉴此,在充分论证高校宗教学建设的必要性与重要性的基础上,笔者着重阐发了加强我国高校宗教学建设的"三大着力点",即坚持与发展马克思主义宗教观、扎根并弘扬中国文化传统以及宗教学建设的国际学术视野。本文最后一部分论及的北京大学宗教学专业探索经验,或许也对推进我国高校的宗教学建设有借鉴意义。

The Study of Religion: Rooted in China and Opening to the World

In his speech at the symposium on the work of philosophy and social sciences on May 17, 2016, the CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping 习近平 listed the study of religion as one of the 11 "major disciplines that need to speed up the improvement, which support philosophy and social sciences" for the first time. While the study of religion has long been recognized as a "first level" subject in the classification of disciplines at the national level, it has not been the case in the course catalogue for academic training and degree granting, which obviously reflects Chinese educational circles’ awareness about the discipline construction, especially about the religious education in university. On the base of analyzing the necessity and importance of the construction of the study of religion in university, this paper focuses on three points, insisting on and developing the Marxist theory about religion, based on and carrying forward the Chinese cultural tradition and taking the international academic perspectives about the study of religion. Lastly, the experience from the study of religion at Peking University can be used for reference for promoting the construction of the study of religion in university.