哲学社会科学版
陕西师范大学学报(哲学社会科学版)
中国古代史研究
唐代民间佛教神祇信仰中的女性角色与地位
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段 塔 丽
(陕西师范大学 政治经济学院, 陕西 西安 710062)
段塔丽,女,河南平舆人,历史学博士,陕西师范大学政治经济学院教授。
摘要:
唐代佛教鼎盛,佛教神祇信仰广泛普及于民间社会,并影响到唐代社会生活的各个方面。佛教从本质上来说,仍是一个由男性所创造、并由男性权力结构支配的制度,但这并不影响唐代妇女信佛的热情与执著。其中一个重要原因就在于唐代中国化的大乘佛教神祇信仰,不仅使唐代现实生活中的广大妇女在精神解脱、情感体验和参与宗教社会活动方面拥有了同男性同样的权利,而且还为世俗社会那些难以扮演社会角色的女性信众提供了某些体现其自身价值的机会和场所,使得她们得以从宗教活动中获得了一种新的身份认同。
关键词:
唐代; 佛教神祇信仰; 女性角色
收稿日期:
2010-05-16
中图分类号:
K242; B94
文献标识码:
A
文章编号:
1672-4283(2011)04-0114-07
基金项目:
Doi:
The Role and Status of Females in Folk Worship of Buddhism and Gods in the Tang Dynasty
DUAN Tali
(College of Politics and Economics, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an 710062, Shaanxi)
Abstract:
The prosperity and popularity of Buddhist worship in society of the Tang Dynasty influenced the current social life in every way. In essence, Buddhism was a church established by males and predominated by the structure of male power, but this didn’t have much effect on the women of the Tang Dynasty’s enthusiasm and persistence in worshipping Buddhism. One of the leading reasons for this was that the Chinesized Mahayana in the Tang Dynasty offered an equal right to the broad women to be disengaged spiritually, to experience emotionally and to participate in activity of religious society like men and provided those female worshippers who had trouble acting social roles with some chance and place to embody the value of their own to obtain a new sense of identity in religious activity.
KeyWords:
the Tang Dynasty; Buddhist worship; female role