宗教与国际热点问题——宗教因素对冷战后国际热点问题和重大冲突的深层影响

冷战结束后,诸多国际热点问题和重大冲突越来越深受宗教因素的影响,这一点已在国内外理论界渐成共识。然而,如何阐明宗教因素的此种广泛而重要的影响,这在目前尚是一个有待深入研讨的重大课题。通过考察时下有代表性的两种关于"冲突原因"的理论解释倾向——"综合因素论"和"文明冲突论",本文借鉴宗教学基础理论研究的晚近成果,并联系实际情况和诸多例证,着重阐释了宗教因素及其影响的三个主要特性,即弥漫性、渗透性和深层性,以期从方法论上为这一重大课题提出一条富有潜力的研讨思路、特别是一些值得深思的疑难问题。

Religions and International Hot Issues:The Deep Impact of Religions on International Hot Issues and Grave Conflicts in the Post-cold War Era

As is internationally agreed, after the cold war, various international hot issues and grave conflicts are influenced by religions more and more. Nevertheless, it is still an unstudied issue to describe the wide and grave influences of religious elements. By examining two representative theoretical possibilities in current scholarship, i.e., synthesis and conflict, in this paper by employing some arguments in recent studies, with the aid of key examples in reality, I attempt to describe religious elements and their three main attributes: dissemination, penetrability, and deepseatedness. I hope that I can provide a potential way of thinking for this important project and help solve some profound and difficult problems.