아네사키 마사하루와 종교학 : 근대일본 지식인에게 있어 종교와 국가

초록

Anesaki Masaharu(姉崎正治, 1873~1949), who is called the founder of modern Japanese Religious Studies at the Tokyo Imperial University, was a very multi-dimensional leading intellectual and scholar, such as a student of Religious Studies pursuing humanities, a believer in mysticism, a devout Nichiren Buddhist, a romantic man of letters, a practical lecturer, and as well as an internationalist for peace or an optimistic politician. In addition, he had experienced all the contradictions and conflicts of the modern Japan since Meiji Restoration in close connection with colonialism, military fascism, and especially all the foreign wars such as First Sino-Japanese War(1894~1895), Russo-Japanese War(1904~1905), World WarⅠ(1914~1918), Second Sino- Japanese War(1937~1945), and Pacific War(1941~1945). In this sense, we can say that to mention on Anesaki Masaharu is to question what the crucial problems in modern Japan were and/or with which the intellectual at that time were troubled. The main purpose of this article is to examine how those inconsistencies of modern Japan were represented in him with reference to the co-relationship between religion and nation－including Emperor system and nationalism, focusing on the three facets of Anesaki Masaharu as an internationalist, a nationalist, and a student of Religious Studies.

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