宗教時間中的綿延與斷裂

Duration and Break in Religious Time

在宗教經驗中，時間感常常是被低估與忽視，本文透過時間感為主體，嘗試回答不同的時間感產生不同的宗教認知，進而產生不同切割時間的方式；而在經典中的時間觀，如何影響信仰者的時間感？如何調和當代工業革命以降，深受資本主義影響下的世俗時間（社會時間）與宗教時間？不同宗教之間如何產生不同的時間感？例如：天上一日地上千日、主看千年如一日，一日如千年、百千萬劫的輪迴觀。在方法上以靈山信徒、民間信仰者、佛教徒與基督徒的田調訪談為方法，比較彼此之間在祈禱靈修中的時間感，以及面對世俗時間與宗教時間的衝突時，彼此之間的同與異。最終提出有別於宗教傳統經典中的時間感，以及彼此宗教之間在永恆性與世俗性之間的認知結構差異。

In religious experience, the sense of time is often underestimated and ignored. This article uses the concept of time to consider the understanding of time within various religions. For example, within religious contexts, one day in heaven may be perceived as equal to one thousand days on the earth or the reincarnation of hundreds of thousands of kalpas. Thus, this study includes the analysis of the following questions: how do various religions differently perceive time? How does the concept of time in each religion’s sacred texts affect the believer’s sense of time? How can the notions of secular time and religious time under the influence of capitalism since the contemporary industrial revolution be reconciled? In this study, field survey interviews with Lingshan believers, folk believers, Buddhists and Christians were used as the method to compare and contrast the religious adherents’sense of time in prayer and spiritual practice. How these concepts are maintained when adherents face a conflict between secular time and religious time is also considered. Finally, it is proposed that the concept of the sense of time varies among religious sacred texts as well as the notion of time and eternity and secularity between religions.