| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
Fiscal Year 1997: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
Fiscal Year 1996: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
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| Research Abstract |
This year is the last year of this project, and the task is to arrange the materials so far accumulated to edit a source book for students studying Chinese religions. The result is the Source Book of Chinese Religions (a tentative version) : Ancestor Worship(1) -- the Ancient Period, which is attached this report of Research Project, Grant-in-aid for Scientific Research. As the title shows, this tentative version includes the materials of restricted areas. The reason that the editor chose this kind of arrangement was that the amount of materials would have been too vast for students, if all themes of Chinese religions had been dealt with.
Though the materials included in this source book are concerned only with ancestor worship in ancient China, these are what the students studying Chinese religions have to read. Basically, this source book has been edited as a supplemental reader for undergraduate classes, but it can be an introduction for non-specialists to studies on Chinese religions because each included material is explained briefly. Besides, the editor tried to include as many excavated materials as possible, so that students can have more access to those materials, which are usually not so accessible. The editor also attempted to introduce many plates, but this point is not so successful because of the lack of space.
The remaining task of this project is to use the source book in classes, because it is edited for this purpose and because we think that we can recognize its problems by its actual usage. If we revised this source book based on the information from experiences, it can be a more complete version. Furthermore, it will be necessary to edit the similar kind of source books for other themes of Chinese religions, and, for this purpose, scholars who study different areas of Chinese religions will have to join to edit the comprehensive source book.
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