有别于神学,真正意义上的宗教学,西方是从1873年麦克斯·缪勒发表《宗教学导论》以后才逐渐形成的。同样,尽管在清以前有关宗教的中文典籍已经浩如烟海,我们独立的宗教学研究并没有早于西方。宗教学在20世纪的中国,是一个规模不大但是既深且广的学科。其深在于本世纪的中国学者已不能满足于前人的阐释和注疏,而是纷纷述史立论,试图更为系统、概 Different from theology, the real religion, the West formed only after Max Muret published the Introduction to Religion in 1873. Similarly, our independent religious studies were not earlier than the West, even though Chinese literature on religion was vast before the Qing dynasty. Religion in China in the 20th century is a small but deep and wide range of disciplines. The reason lies in the fact that Chinese scholars of this century can no longer meet their predecessors’ interpretation and annotation. Instead, they have all spoken of history and argued that they should try to be more systematic