Zurück zur Übersicht Kalenderwoche 7: Montag, 10.02.2020 bis Sonntag, 16.02.2020
Freitag | 10.00 Uhr | Japanese Buddhism and the Modern Natural Sciences In the course of the nineteenth century, religions around the globe increasingly came to understand themselves as “religions” in an emphatic sense. The conceptual boundary-drawing exercise that resulted in this self-designation crucially involved a positioning relative to the modern natural sciences. The latter had become intertwined with philosophical materialism and come to pose a fundamental threat to religions. This threat was also felt in late nineteenth-century Japan, most acutely among the Buddhist establishment. The workshop will trace some of the main answers that Buddhist thinkers and activists came up with to counter the challenges posed by modern science. Eventually, these answers helped define what modern Buddhism was all about, and in many instances they remain the framework in which the problem of science and religion is still addressed today. Adresse Karl Jaspers Center 212 Voßstraße 2 69115 Heidelberg Veranstalter Institut für Japanologie Homepage Veranstalter https://www.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/japanologie/ Kontakt |