Christoph Kleine
Biographic Data
| ID | 375825 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christoph Kleine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christoph |
| FAMILY NAME | Kleine |
| SIGNATURE | KLEINE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leipzig University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1798-4344 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Buddhist Asia
When Christianity Became a Shūshi 宗旨
Cultural encounters, entanglements, and comparisons were the driving force behind the formation of a global history of religion. Such encounters require the formation of comparative concepts; for Europeans, the most important of these was ‘religion’ . With European expansion, and especially its forays into Asia starting in the late fifteenth century, ‘religion’ gradually became a general term to describe a distinct subset of human culture, with e…
Secularities in Japan
Rethinking the Interdependence of Buddhism and the State in Late Edo and Meiji Japan
This article asks how the Buddhist paradigm of the interdependence between the Buddha’s law and the ruler’s law was modified over the centuries and reinterpreted by nineteenth-century authors in the face of rapid political, social, and epistemic changes. An analysis of relevant texts reveals continuities as well as discontinuities. While the paradigm’s basic function of guaranteeing autonomy and protection to Buddhist institutions remained largel…
Historicizing Secularity
Drawing upon the critique of secularization theory, especially its lack of historical depth, this article outlines a research agenda that focuses on a specific - but fundamental - aspect of secularization: it aims at the historicization of conceptual distinctions and institutional differentiations between the religious and the secular. The authors employ the heuristic concept of 'secularity' to refer to these demarcations, and argue that seculari…
Distinctions and Differentiations between Medicine and Religion
This special section of Asian Medicine brings together three scholars of the history of healing practices and medicine in premodern Asian societies to explore whether and how emic boundaries between religion and medicine were drawn in different historical contexts. In this introduction, we use the example of ancient Japan in an attempt to show how first steps towards a separation of religion and medicine can be identified, even when they have not…
Comparative Secularities
In view of the questionability of the concept “religion” as an analytical category for the investigation of pre-modern, non-Western cultures, how can one still pursue the history of religion or historical sociology of religion? Roughly speaking, scholars of religion can be placed between two poles with regard to this question: (1) those who reject the cross-cultural use of “religion” as a comparative concept and (2) those who believe they cannot …
The Secular Ground Bass of Pre-modern Japan Reconsidered
Research Programme of the HCAS 'Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities
The project seeks to explore the boundaries that distinguish between the religious and non-religious, in modern as well as pre-modern societies. In doing so, we are aligning ourselves with current debates but we are approaching the debated issues from a basic theoretical perspective. At present, a general distinction can be drawn between three narratives: The first claims the dwindling presence and relevance of religion ("secularisation"); the se…
Der Buddhismus in Japan
Als erster Autor überhaupt erörtert Christoph Kleine in einer Gesamtschau die Besonderheiten der japanischen Religionsgeschichte kritisch unter systematisch religionswissenschaftlichen Gesichtspunkten, indem er die historischen Fakten mit Fragestellungen und Theorien der allgemeinen Religionswissenschaft verknüpft.
Der Buddhismus in Japan
Der japanische Buddhismus zählt zu den einflussreichsten, vielfältigsten und lebendigsten Traditionen des Buddhismus. Auch im sogenannten »Westen« haben verschiedene Spielarten des japanischen Buddhismus längst Fuß gefasst. Das vorliegende Buch ist die bislang umfassendste und aktuellste Gesamtdarstellung dieser faszinierenden Religion in einer europäischen Sprache. Den gegenwärtigen Stand der internationalen Forschung abbildend, liefert Christop…
Kanonisierung und Kanonbildung in der asiatischen Religionsgeschichte
Dieser Band diskutiert Prozesse der Kanonisierung und Kanonbildung in verschiedenen religiösen Traditionen Asiens und prÃ1⁄4ft dabei den Wert und die Anwendbarkeit des Kanonsbegriffs fÃ1⁄4r diese Religionen. Konventionelle westliche Klassifizierungen werden kritisch hinterfragt, neue differenzierende Kategorien vorgeschlagen und vorliegende Quellen erneut unter diesen Gesichtspunkten untersucht. Die fÃ1⁄4nfzehn Beiträge dieses Bandes analysieren …
Üble Mönche oder wohltätige Bodhisattvas? Über Formen, Gründe und Begründungen organisierter Gewalt im japanischen Buddhismus
Article Üble Mönche oder wohltätige Bodhisattvas? Über Formen, Gründe und Begründungen organisierter Gewalt im japanischen Buddhismus was published on September 1, 2003 in the journal Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft (volume 11, issue 2)
Kanonisierung und Kanonbildung in der asiatischen Religionsgeschichte
Dieser Band diskutiert Prozesse der Kanonisierung und Kanonbildung in verschiedenen religiösen Traditionen Asiens und prÃ1⁄4ft dabei den Wert und die Anwendbarkeit des Kanonsbegriffs fÃ1⁄4r diese Religionen. Konventionelle westliche Klassifizierungen werden kritisch hinterfragt, neue differenzierende Kategorien vorgeschlagen und vorliegende Quellen erneut unter diesen Gesichtspunkten untersucht. Die fÃ1⁄4nfzehn Beiträge dieses Bandes analysieren …
Comparative Secularities
In view of the questionability of the concept “religion” as an analytical category for the investigation of pre-modern, non-Western cultures, how can one still pursue the history of religion or historical sociology of religion? Roughly speaking, scholars of religion can be placed between two poles with regard to this question: (1) those who reject the cross-cultural use of “religion” as a comparative concept and (2) those who believe they cannot …
Historicizing Secularity
Drawing upon the critique of secularization theory, especially its lack of historical depth, this article outlines a research agenda that focuses on a specific - but fundamental - aspect of secularization: it aims at the historicization of conceptual distinctions and institutional differentiations between the religious and the secular. The authors employ the heuristic concept of 'secularity' to refer to these demarcations, and argue that seculari…
Research Programme of the HCAS 'Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities
The project seeks to explore the boundaries that distinguish between the religious and non-religious, in modern as well as pre-modern societies. In doing so, we are aligning ourselves with current debates but we are approaching the debated issues from a basic theoretical perspective. At present, a general distinction can be drawn between three narratives: The first claims the dwindling presence and relevance of religion ("secularisation"); the se…
Üble Mönche oder wohltätige Bodhisattvas? Über Formen, Gründe und Begründungen organisierter Gewalt im japanischen Buddhismus
Article Üble Mönche oder wohltätige Bodhisattvas? Über Formen, Gründe und Begründungen organisierter Gewalt im japanischen Buddhismus was published on September 1, 2003 in the journal Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft (volume 11, issue 2)
Der Buddhismus in Japan
Der japanische Buddhismus zählt zu den einflussreichsten, vielfältigsten und lebendigsten Traditionen des Buddhismus. Auch im sogenannten »Westen« haben verschiedene Spielarten des japanischen Buddhismus längst Fuß gefasst. Das vorliegende Buch ist die bislang umfassendste und aktuellste Gesamtdarstellung dieser faszinierenden Religion in einer europäischen Sprache. Den gegenwärtigen Stand der internationalen Forschung abbildend, liefert Christop…
Kanonisierung und Kanonbildung in der asiatischen Religionsgeschichte
Dieser Band diskutiert Prozesse der Kanonisierung und Kanonbildung in verschiedenen religiösen Traditionen Asiens und prÃ1⁄4ft dabei den Wert und die Anwendbarkeit des Kanonsbegriffs fÃ1⁄4r diese Religionen. Konventionelle westliche Klassifizierungen werden kritisch hinterfragt, neue differenzierende Kategorien vorgeschlagen und vorliegende Quellen erneut unter diesen Gesichtspunkten untersucht. Die fÃ1⁄4nfzehn Beiträge dieses Bandes analysieren …
Der Buddhismus in Japan
Als erster Autor überhaupt erörtert Christoph Kleine in einer Gesamtschau die Besonderheiten der japanischen Religionsgeschichte kritisch unter systematisch religionswissenschaftlichen Gesichtspunkten, indem er die historischen Fakten mit Fragestellungen und Theorien der allgemeinen Religionswissenschaft verknüpft.
Research Programme of the HCAS 'Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities
The project seeks to explore the boundaries that distinguish between the religious and non-religious, in modern as well as pre-modern societies. In doing so, we are aligning ourselves with current debates but we are approaching the debated issues from a basic theoretical perspective. At present, a general distinction can be drawn between three narratives: The first claims the dwindling presence and relevance of religion ("secularisation"); the se…
The Secular Ground Bass of Pre-modern Japan Reconsidered
Distinctions and Differentiations between Medicine and Religion
This special section of Asian Medicine brings together three scholars of the history of healing practices and medicine in premodern Asian societies to explore whether and how emic boundaries between religion and medicine were drawn in different historical contexts. In this introduction, we use the example of ancient Japan in an attempt to show how first steps towards a separation of religion and medicine can be identified, even when they have not…
Comparative Secularities
In view of the questionability of the concept “religion” as an analytical category for the investigation of pre-modern, non-Western cultures, how can one still pursue the history of religion or historical sociology of religion? Roughly speaking, scholars of religion can be placed between two poles with regard to this question: (1) those who reject the cross-cultural use of “religion” as a comparative concept and (2) those who believe they cannot …
Historicizing Secularity
Drawing upon the critique of secularization theory, especially its lack of historical depth, this article outlines a research agenda that focuses on a specific - but fundamental - aspect of secularization: it aims at the historicization of conceptual distinctions and institutional differentiations between the religious and the secular. The authors employ the heuristic concept of 'secularity' to refer to these demarcations, and argue that seculari…
Secularities in Japan
Rethinking the Interdependence of Buddhism and the State in Late Edo and Meiji Japan
This article asks how the Buddhist paradigm of the interdependence between the Buddha’s law and the ruler’s law was modified over the centuries and reinterpreted by nineteenth-century authors in the face of rapid political, social, and epistemic changes. An analysis of relevant texts reveals continuities as well as discontinuities. While the paradigm’s basic function of guaranteeing autonomy and protection to Buddhist institutions remained largel…
When Christianity Became a Shūshi 宗旨
Cultural encounters, entanglements, and comparisons were the driving force behind the formation of a global history of religion. Such encounters require the formation of comparative concepts; for Europeans, the most important of these was ‘religion’ . With European expansion, and especially its forays into Asia starting in the late fifteenth century, ‘religion’ gradually became a general term to describe a distinct subset of human culture, with e…
Buddhist Asia
Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Japanese History and Culture (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (4 works)