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发帖数: 99 | 1 上海大学历史系教授刘义前来举办讲座：儒教、基督教及宗教自由
Title: Confucianism, Christianity and Religious Freedom: A Historical Lesson
Presenter: Yi LIU, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Shanghai
University
Location: Stone Hall Room 217
Time: 6:00pm – 7:30pm
March 3, 2011 (Thursday)
ABSTRACT: At the beginning of 2011, a statue of Confucius was erected in the
Tiananmen Square, as a new symbol accompanying Chairman Mao. And just
before the end of 2010, a few Chinese scholars protested against the local
government’s sanction of building a Christian church in Confucius’s
hometown. The two events remind us a historical debate at the beginning of
20th century, between Christians and Confucians, regarding religious freedom
and state religion. The story began with Kang Youwei’s initiative during
the 1898 reform movement, to make Confucianism a religion in a Christian way
, and the Christians’ struggling for religious freedom after the Boxer
Movement of 1900. The highlight is during 1912-1917 around the first
constitution of Republican China. Should Confucianism be made the state
religion, or should religious freedom be a guarantee for Christians? One
hundred years later, how should we look on the historical lesson through a
contemporary perspective?
Yi LIU is now a Post-doctoral Fellow at Berkley Center for Religion, Peace
and World Affairs, Georgetown University. He is also Lecturer in the
Department of History and Executive Director of Center for the Study of
Religion and Society at Shanghai University. He is author of Religion and
Politics in a Global Context (Shanghai University Press, 2011) and a few
academic articles, including one in Studies in World Christianity (UK) and
one in Studies in World Religions (China). His most recent research is about
the globalization of Chinese indigenous churches, with a comparison between
True Jesus Church and the Local Churches. | w*****0
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