功能宗教学发微

On functional religion

文章将宗教归结为一种与世俗秩序并列又与其发生千丝万缕关联的信仰体系。文章在以下几个方面展开:在信众心理层面考察了宗教的源起;解析了宗教对社会结构和信众所具有的多重功能;揭示了宗教在思想和行动两个方面的发展逻辑。

Religion is interpreted in this article as a belief system juxtaposed and multidimensionally eonnected with the secular order. The assertion is developed as follow： the origin of religion is examined in relating to the believers mentality, multitudinous functions of religion is analyzed in the social circumstances, and religious narrative is advanced in theoretical as well as action level.