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SUMMARY:Drawing the Boundary: Interreligious Demarcation and Resistance in
  East Asia
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120712
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120714
DTSTAMP:20260501T113038Z
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DESCRIPTION:Flyer\nIf seen from the long-term perspective\, the history of
  East Asian religions definitively lacks the conflicts of Western and Midd
 le East traditions. The Chinese “Three Teachings” (san jiao 三教) fr
 amework supported coexistence rather than struggle and competition and\, t
 herefore\, terms such as “hybridism\,” “syncretism\,” or “eclect
 icism” have always played a major role in the field of East Asia areas s
 tudies. Yet\, the importance of eclecticism and thematic/social overlappin
 g notwithstanding\, it is questionable whether East Asian religions could 
 have survived through the centuries without a consistent synchronic and di
 achronic effort to construct the own religious luggage and to distinguish 
 themselves from more or less contiguous religious realms. To replace the f
 ocus on demarcation with a one-sided emphasis on the absorption of themes\
 , practices\, beliefs on the part of given religious and cultural spheres 
 appears to be a fairly illogical approach\, at least if one looks at histo
 rical evidence or the scholarly debates about the concept of alterity. Acc
 ordingly\, the workshop aims to collect case studies from the East Asian r
 ealm that might help (a) to describe the features of the interreligious di
 fferentiation processes at a given point in time and (b) to map constants 
 and changes of these processes through history.
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/WS_DB_120712_eng/
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