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Abstract
The Study of Religion (Shūkyō-gaku) is an early text from a one-year course, 1913-1914, which Nishida Kitarō imparted only once in his academic career. In this text, apart from references to mystics and to early and medieval Christian thinkers, Nishida tries to point out the basic elements of Eastern and Western religions through the writings of xviii-xxth century authors, among them participants in the Gifford Lectures, the Bampton Lectures and Hibbert Lectures. On the other hand, Nishida tries to find the corresponding characteristics of religion in Zen and True Pure Land Buddhism. In short, Nishida’s approach to a philosophy of religion gives us an overview of the problems concerning a Buddhist-Christian dialogue.
Résumé
The Study of Religion (Shūkyō-gaku) provient d’un cours d’un an (1913-1914) que Nishida Kitarō ne donna qu’une seule fois dans sa carrière universitaire. Dans ce texte, à part des références aux mystiques et aux penseurs chrétiens primitifs du Moyen-Âge, Nishida tente de mettre en valeur les éléments fondamentaux des religions orientales et occidentales à travers les écrits d’auteurs des XVIIIe, XIXe et XXe siècles, notamment ceux qui participaient aux conférences Gifford, Bampton et Hibbert. D’autre part, Nishida tente de repérer les caractéristiques correspondantes de la religion dans le zen et le bouddhisme de la Vraie Terre pure. En résumé, l’approche de Nishida, en ce qui concerne une philosophie de la religion nous donne un aperçu des problèmes rencontrés dans le dialogue christiano-bouddhiste.
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