The historical development of jiao 教 in Chinese and its impact on the concept of ‘religion’ in English scholarship

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Translation and Interpreting Studies Pub Date : 2018-10-12 DOI:10.1075/TIS.00018.CHE

I-Hsin Chen

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Abstract

This article contends that the traditional Chinese concept of jiao (teaching) has, through translation, greatly influenced the conceptual development of ‘religion’ in English-language scholarship. The article first demonstrates how the historical development of jiao in Chinese reveals numerous previously neglected patterns of Chinese spirituality. Using Friedrich Schleiermacher’s and Max Müller’s viewpoints, the article suggests the significance of translation in redefining a concept via the particularity of foreign culture. It then examines how James Legge, Jan Jakob Maria de Groot, William Edward Soothill, Bertrand Russell, and Ernest Richard Hughes and K. Hughes redefine religion in their translations of jiao. Highlighting jiao and religion as fluid categories via scholars’ translations and debates, my article challenges simplistic assumptions about Western supremacy in Sino-Western acculturation. It affirms the traditions and translations of jiao as powerful agents for shaping and enriching the meanings and phenomena of religion in the globalizing dynamics of human cultural interactions.

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教宗学在中国的历史发展及其对英国学术界“宗教”概念的影响

本文认为，中国传统的“教”概念通过翻译对英语学术中“宗教”概念的发展产生了重大影响。本文首先展示了中国教的历史发展如何揭示了许多以前被忽视的中国精神模式。本文运用施莱尔马赫和米勒的观点，从外国文化的特殊性出发，提出翻译对重新定义一个概念的意义。然后，它考察了詹姆斯·莱格、扬·雅各布·玛丽亚·德·格罗特、威廉·爱德华·索希尔、伯特兰·罗素以及欧内斯特·理查德·休斯和K·休斯如何在他们对焦的翻译中重新定义宗教。通过学者的翻译和辩论，我的文章强调了焦和宗教是一个流动的类别，挑战了关于中西文化融合中西方至上主义的简单假设。它肯定了教的传统和翻译是在人类文化互动的全球化动态中塑造和丰富宗教意义和现象的强大力量。

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期刊介绍： Translation and Interpreting Studies (TIS) is a biannual, peer-reviewed journal designed to disseminate knowledge and research relevant to all areas of language mediation. TIS seeks to address broad, common concerns among scholars working in various areas of Translation and Interpreting Studies, while encouraging sound empirical research that could serve as a bridge between academics and practitioners. The journal is also dedicated to facilitating communication among those who may be working on related subjects in other fields, from Comparative Literature to Information Science. Finally, TIS is a forum for the dissemination in English translation of relevant scholarly research originally published in languages other than English. TIS is the official journal of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association (ATISA).