著者

梅山 秀幸

出版者

桃山学院大学総合研究所

雑誌

桃山学院大学総合研究所紀要 = St. Andrew's University bulletin of the Research Institute (ISSN:1346048X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.46, no.1, pp.95-117, 2020-07

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Continuing to study how Buddhism was accepted in ancient Japan, I spent the year of 2015on sabbatical in Paris. The series of terrorist incidents that occurred in November of that yearforced me to ponder the clash of civilizations and religions. In Paris I was a guest academic fellow of College de France, whose ethos is "docet omnia(teaches all)," so it was a very convenablecircumstance to think about the conflicts and symbioses of civilizations(and of religions). There,Hebraists, Semitists, Buddhists, and Biblicists could be seen having lunch together in the university cafeteria, and holding peaceful discussions in the corridors. The building of College facesthe rue Clovis. Going up that street, we meet the rue Clotilde. At the place where those twostreets intersect, there once was the Abbaye de Ste. Geneviève. King Clovis, Queen Clotilde, andSaint Geneviève complete the three big names of people who contributed to the acceptance ofChristianity in France and the founding of Catholic France.The field of comparative studies is likely to offer a new and valid perspective from which toconsider the theme that I have been concerned with for many years. So, through reviewingFormer President François Hollande's discourse at the ceremony of homage to the Victims of13 November 2015, and reading Gregoire de Tour's "History of the Francs", this research paperwill explore how the "barbarous" people became civilized through accepting the highly dogmatical and catechized religion.