摘要:
Globalization brings about a universal and unconditional juxtaposition of religions. In this context, both religious dialogue and religious criticism become inevitable items on the contemporary agendas. In this article, the author analyzes several interreligious issues: the dispute between Falun Gong practitioners and Buddhist believers in Hong Kong (2000), the controversy between Matteo Ricci and famous Chinese Buddhist in the late Ming Dynasty, Nietzsche's criticism of Buddhism, the Rushdie Affair, etc. The author discriminates religious dialogue from religious criticism and redefines them. In the context of religious juxtaposition, religious dialogue refers to the verbal or written communication that is based on good interreligious will; while religious criticism refers to the interreligious controversy and debating resulted from certain interreligious affairs or conflicts. The discursive nature of religious dialogue and religious criticism is quite different from each other. The former is more a kind of religious context, the latter that of political. The conversation manners and ethic requirements are then discussed and compared between the two contexts of religious dialogue and religious criticism.