The study of the Duo-Monism in religious Spirituality
090619A - 英文摘要決定版
Abstract
The thesis is a qualitative research which discusses the different religious Spirituality and individual religious experience and results in the value of the Duo-Monism (the unity of spiritualism and materialism) by historical phenomenology method and analysis induction. I reflect the conflicts and balances between the Post-Modern Religion and science through analyzing Duo-Monism (the Unity of Heaven and Human Beings) in Confucianism, the Buddhist's the Way of Liberation, the Taoism's theory of Cultivatingboth the Nature and Body, and the Catholicism's Redemption.
The difference of Religious Spirituality has been defined as five types：(1) The inquiry of Catholicism’ s Duo-Monism. (2) The inquiry of Taoism’s Duo-Monism(the theory of Cultivatingboth the Nature and Body). (3) The inquiry of “the Unification of Spirit and Matter”of secret sect in Buddhism. (4) The inquiry of the Duo-Monism between religion andscience. and (5) The inquiry ofthe unity of spiritualism and materialism of individual religious experience. Each kinds of religious Spirituality have their own obXXXXXjective developmental factors.
It results changes of four dimensions from the influence of Duo-Monism in religious Spirituality. The first dimension is the affirmation of the meaning of life. The second one is the display of individual potential talents. The third one is the value of creation based on the meXXXXXtaphysics of the Duo-Monism in religious Spirituality. The last one is the tranquility of body and soul.
Meanwhile, I discover the harmonization between idealistic “theory of genesis” and materialistic “theory of evolution” by the unity of spiritualism and materialism, and attempt to present the core value of ultimate concern by recalling the psychological intrinsic changes and the integration ofthe thoughts and behaviors in the process of religious Spirituality
Key words:
Religious experience, Hermeneutics, Comparative religion, Mysticism, Structure, Spirituality
