課程資訊
課程名稱
宗教史與芝加哥學派
Religious History and the Chicago School 
開課學期
103-1 
授課對象
文學院  歷史學研究所  
授課教師
周伯戡 
課號
Hist5082 
課程識別碼
123 U9010 
班次
 
學分
全/半年
半年 
必/選修
選修 
上課時間
星期四7,8,9(14:20~17:20) 
上課地點
博雅404 
備註
限學士班三年級以上
總人數上限:20人 
 
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課程概述

這門課包含兩部分:(1)介紹當代宗教史研究(前半段)(2)芝加哥學派中對宗教在歷史所扮演的角色,以及研究的進路。(後半段)雖然這課題若干重要作品有中文譯本,我們儘可能讀英文作品(或英譯本)。在指定的書籍外,我會發下補充教材。 

課程目標
1. 理解西方學術界過去百年來宗教研究的發展。
2. 從歷史的脈絡觀察宗教的活動,並從此衍生出來的觀念。
3. 芝加哥大學的宗教史學派所關心的課題。
 
課程要求
1. 學生上課前必須讀完指定的章節。
2. 其中一個小時為討論。一位學生被指定發報告,一位學生被指定討論。指定報告者在報告前得把報告內容放在google 課程網站,供所有學生閱讀、以及討論。(學生得提供電郵帳號,最好是gmail)
3. 學生需要繳交期中(論文摘要與註釋的書目)與期末報告
 
預期每週課後學習時數
 
Office Hours
 
指定閱讀
1. Hans G. Kippenberg, Discovering Religious History in the Modern Age, Princeton, 2002
2. Eliade, Myth of the Eternal Return,
3. Eliade, Patterns in Comparative Religion (Translated by Rosemary Sheed Introduced by John C. Holt
4. 其他指定閱讀材料(參見課程進度)
 
參考書目
 
評量方式
(僅供參考)
 
No.
項目
百分比
說明
1. 
討論 
41% 
 
2. 
期中小報告 
29% 
 
3. 
期末報告 
30% 
 
 
課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
第1週
9/18  Organization meeting 
第2週
9/25  Rise of the Study of Religious History in the 19th Century: Contact with Foreign Cultures, and Philosophical Reflection of Christian History
Discovering Religious History, chapters I, II
 
第3週
10/02  Approaches: Linguistic and Genealogical
Discovering Religious History, chapters III, IV
 
第4週
10/09  Approaches: Sociological
Discovering Religious History, chapters V, VI
 
第5週
10/16  Re-examination of the Sacred Depth in the Mirror of Hellenic Religion, and Beyond
Discovering Religious History, chapters VII, VIII
 
第6週
10/23  Moving Society and Civilization in Action
Discovering Religious History chapters IX, X
 
第7週
10/30  Disclosing the Mysterious
Discovering Religious History chapters XI, XII
 
第8週
11/06  The Nature of Narratives in Religious Historiography
Discovering Religious History XIII,
 
第9週
11/13  綜合討論 
第10週
11/20  The Mythos of the “Chicago School” and its Prehistory
1. Kitagawa, “History of Religions at Chicago” in Kitagawa, History of Religions: Understanding Human Experience (Atlanta: Scholar’s Press, 1987), pp. 133–144.
2. Long, Charles. A Look at the Chicago Tradition in the History of Religions and Its Future Task,” in Kitagawa, ed., History of Religions: Retrospect and Prospect (New York: Macmillan, 1985), pp. 87–104.
3. Kitagawa, “History of Religions in America” in History of Religions: Understanding Human Experience (Atlanta: Scholar’s Press, 1987), pp. 3–26.
 
第11週
11/27  Allgemeine Religionswissenschaft
Wach, Joachim. Introduction to the History of Religions(New York: Macmillan, 1988), pp. 3–142
 
第12週
12/04  Sociology of Religion
Wach, Sociology of Religion, pp. 1–53, 374–383
 
第13週
12/11  Eliade: Cosmos and History
Eliade, The Myth of the Eternal Return (全) Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1969
 
第14週
12/18  Eliade: Morphology
1. Eliade, Patterns in Comparative Religion, New York : Sheed & Ward, c1958, Foreword, Chapter One, and Conclusions; Eliade, “Foreword” to Shamanism (Princeton, 1964)
2. Smith,J.Z., “Acknowledgements: Morphology and History in Mircea Eliade’s Patterns in Comparative Religion (1949–1999) (Parts One) in his Relating Religion (Chicago: Universityof Chicago Press, 2004), pp. 61–79. Part II: The Texture of the Work,” in J. Z. Smith, Relating Religion (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), pp. 80–100
 
第15週
12/25  review 
第16週
1/01  Later Chicagoans
1. Long, “The Study of Religion: Its Nature and Discourse” in C. Long, Significations (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1986), pp. 13–26
2. Long, “Human Centers: An Essay on Method in History of Religions” in Significations pp. 65–78.
3. Kitagawa, “Religious Studies and the History of Religions” in J. Kitagawa, The History of Religions: Understanding Human Experience (Atlanta: Scholar’s Press, 1987), pp. 145–157.
4. Kitagawa, “History of Religions: Then and Now” in The History of Religions: Retrospect and Prospect (New York: Macmillan, 1985), pp. 121–143.
5. Smith, .”A Twice-Told Tale: The History of the History of Religions’ History” in J.Z. Smith, RelatingReligion (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), pp. 362–374
 
第17週
1/08  Review and students’ presentations 
第18週
1/15  期末測驗、檢討