中西宗教观之比较

A Comparison between Chinese and Western View of Religion

在西方,80%以上的人信仰宗教,而中国则与之相反,约90%的人不是宗教信徒。何以出现如此大的反差?只要从中西方思维结构与思维模式、价值观、神人观、来世观以及宗教在社会中的地位和作用、君权与神权的关系、哲学与宗教的关系等方面进行具体分析,就不难发现,中国和西方在上述诸多方面都存在着很大差异。正是这些文化深层结构的差异,造成了中西方对宗教的不同认识和态度。

There are over 80% of people are religious in the west, while in China,there are about 90% are non-religious.What makes so big a contrast?We can only get the answer when we take a look at the following aspects and then make an analysis to them:mode of thinking,point of valute,view to god and human,view to the eternity,the role of religion in a society,regality and divine authority as well as the relation between philosophy and religion.From the analysis we can see that there are vast diversity between China and the west world among those aspects listed above.It is the difference that makes different view and different attitude to the religion between Chinese people and the people in the west.