The third workshop on the study of the introduction into “the Chinese Rites Controversy and Sino-foreign Exchanges” will be held online on Friday.
Academic support will be provided by the editorial department of the Journal of Beijing Administrative College, the Chinese Department of Shanghai Normal University, and the editorial staff of International Comparative Literature.
Speeches will be given on topics such as the Integrity of Man and Nature in Chinese Religion and the God-man Relation of Christianity as well as Define Confucianism: the Chinese Rites Controversy and Debates over China and West.
The last session will be a roundtable dialogue between Christianity and Chinese religion on the Chinese Rites Controversy and the recent debates over China and the West.
The Chinese Rites Controversy was an important issue during the Chinese and western cultural exchanges. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, western Catholic missionaries argued whether the traditional Chinese rites violated Catholic doctrines.
This was an argument originating from the debate between the Kangxi emperor and the missionaries over the Confucian ceremonies. Pope Clement XI supported the Dominicans, who regarded the rites as being incompatible with Christian belief, suppressing the Jesuits. The Pope’s decision resulted in countermeasure by the Qing Dynasty, which placed restrictions on the missionaries’ activities.
It was not until 1939 that the Holy See reversed the ban on the rites.
- Translated by Karen Luo
第三届“中国礼仪之争与中外交流”前言研究工作坊线上举行
第三届“中国礼仪之争与中外交流”前言研究工作坊将于9月25日下午2:00-5:00在线上举行。
此次工作坊是由《北京行政学院学报》编辑部、高水平大学一流学科建设上海师大中文系、《国际比较文学（中英文）》（ICL）编辑部提供学术支持。
届时的日程包括中国社科院世界研究所研究员、中国宗教学会会长卓新平主讲《基督教的神人关系与中国宗教的天人合一》，复旦大学宗教学系教授、上海宗教学会副会长李天纲主讲《为儒家定义：中国礼仪之争与近代中西之争》。
最后是一场十多位学者参与的圆桌论坛《基督教与中国宗教的对话：中国礼仪之争与近代中西之争》。
“中国礼仪之争”在中西文化交流中是一个非常重要的事件，又称“中西礼仪之争”，指17世纪至18世纪西方天主教传教士就中国传统礼仪是否违背天主教义的争议。狭义而言，这是指康熙与传教士就儒教崇拜引发的争论，当时的天主教教宗克雷芒十一世当时认为中国儒教的帝皇及祖先崇拜违反天主教义，支持多明我会，打压耶稣会，结果引发清朝廷反制，严厉限制传教士活动。直到1939年，罗马教廷才撤消禁止中国教徒祭祖的禁令。
第三届“中国礼仪之争与中外交流”前言研究工作坊线上举行
The third workshop on the study of the introduction into “the Chinese Rites Controversy and Sino-foreign Exchanges” will be held online on Friday.
Academic support will be provided by the editorial department of the Journal of Beijing Administrative College, the Chinese Department of Shanghai Normal University, and the editorial staff of International Comparative Literature.
Speeches will be given on topics such as the Integrity of Man and Nature in Chinese Religion and the God-man Relation of Christianity as well as Define Confucianism: the Chinese Rites Controversy and Debates over China and West.
The last session will be a roundtable dialogue between Christianity and Chinese religion on the Chinese Rites Controversy and the recent debates over China and the West.
The Chinese Rites Controversy was an important issue during the Chinese and western cultural exchanges. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, western Catholic missionaries argued whether the traditional Chinese rites violated Catholic doctrines.
This was an argument originating from the debate between the Kangxi emperor and the missionaries over the Confucian ceremonies. Pope Clement XI supported the Dominicans, who regarded the rites as being incompatible with Christian belief, suppressing the Jesuits. The Pope’s decision resulted in countermeasure by the Qing Dynasty, which placed restrictions on the missionaries’ activities.
It was not until 1939 that the Holy See reversed the ban on the rites.
- Translated by Karen Luo
Workshop on Chinese Rites Controversy and Sino-foreign Exchanges to be Held Online
