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Research on the Tradition of Nature-God Thought in the modern History of religious ideas

Research Project

Project/Area Number 08610034
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Religious studies
Research InstitutionHitotsubashi University

Principal Investigator

FUKASAWA Hidetaka  Hitotsubashi University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Professor, 社会学部, 教授 (30208912)

Project Period (FY) 1996 – 1998
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1998)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1997: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 1996: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
Keywordsnature-god / nature-soteriology / modern religion / Jacob Boehme / Ernst Haeckel / Modernity in Germany / nationalism / critique of Christianity / 自然 / 近現ドイツ宗教思想 / 科学と宗教 / 宗教 / 宗教学 / 神性 / 自然宗教 / 近世・近代 / 自然神秘主義 / ニュー・エイジ / 世俗化
Research Abstract

The concept of nature-god implies the concept of the Godhood which comprises the natural as its own essencial characteristic. In this research I traceed the historical development of the idea of nature-god chiefly in German tradition. As a result of the research I ascertained the fact that beside the actualization of the natural in the naturalistic-secular sense there was and is a tradition of thought which can be called the "nature-soteriology" in the modern era. The idea of nature functioned not only as a critical tool agaist the dogma of revelation or against the modern society/culture, but it also acquired a sort of soteriological tone which promised an immanent transcendence through the resustitation of natural life-energy. In my research I thematized 5 topics as focal points of discussion : 1) actualization of the soteriological nature in the early modern nature-mysticism ; 2) the restoration of ancient panphysisism in the German roman ticism ; 3) nature-god and nature-soteriology in the anti-christian "voelkisch"religious movements in the 19th and the 20th centuries ; 4) the paradoxical transcendence of immanet nature in the Haeckelian idea of natural science and his Monistic Movement ; 4) the nature as "the not-identical" and its soteriological implication in the critical theory of Adorno and Bejamin.

Report

(4 results)
  • 1998 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1997 Annual Research Report
  • 1996 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (8 results)

All Other

All Publications (8 results)

  • [Publications] 深澤英隆: "現代ドイツ社会と宗教"渡辺重範編『ドイツ・ハンドブック』(早大出版会). 280-304 (1997)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 深澤英隆: "創出される聖典"鎌田敏・市川裕編『*典と人間』(大明堂). 123-145 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Hidetaka Fukasawa: "Contemporary Society and Religion"Shigenori Watanabe (ed.) Handbook "Germany" Wasedadaigaku Shuppankai. (1997)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Hidetaka Fukasawa: "The Creation of Scripture"K. Kamada/I. Ichikawa (eds.) Man and Scripture Taimeido. (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 深澤 英隆: "現代ドイツ社会と宗教" 渡辺重範編『ドイツ・ハンドブック』(早大出版会). 280-304 (1997)

    • Related Report
      1997 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 深澤 英隆: "創出される聖典" 鎌田綮・市川裕編『聖典と人間』(大昭堂). 近刊 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1997 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 深澤英隆: "「神秘主義論争」における体験・個人・共同体" 一橋大学研究年報. 35. 139-190 (1996)

    • Related Report
      1996 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 深澤英隆: "ゲルマン主義・宗教運動の生成と挫折" 小岸昭編『ファシズム想像力』(人文書院). (未定). (1997)

    • Related Report
      1996 Annual Research Report

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