人类学界和社会学界早期宗教功能研究述略

A General Survey of the Early Studies on the Function of Religion in Anthropology and Sociology

本文对社会学界和人类学界对宗教功能的早期研究进行了回溯,初步厘清了从菲斯泰尔·德·库朗热到马林诺斯基和拉德克利夫-布朗这一段时期内西方学术界关于宗教功能研究的源流,并对如涂尔干等几位具有代表性的宗教功能主义研究者的理论和成就进行了学理上的评述。

Based on the retrospection about the early studies on the function of religion in sociology and anthropology, this paper makes clear the origin and development of research in this field, from Fustel de Coulanges to Bronislow Malinowski and A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, and the writer also makes some comments on several crucial points of view put forward by some representative researchers such as Emile Durkheim.