欲望驱使下的世俗化宗教图景——以张资平的小说与传记为案例

The Desire-Driven Secularized Religious Panorama——A Case Study of Zhang Ziping's Novels and Autobiography

20世纪初期,西学东渐之风日盛,基督教在中国的传播也日渐活跃。张资平在小说创作和自传中对基督教的认识和理解,代表20世纪初期部分中国人对基督教的看法:肯定宗教于人类生活的必要性和正当性,认为基督教优于本土宗教和佛教,基督教传入中土正可以取佛教而代之。张氏的小说与自传呈现出中国基督徒为物欲驱使而信教的世俗图景,从一个侧面暴露了国人缺失宗教热情的民族性格和中国文化的结构性缺陷。

In the early 20th century, with the wider spread of Western Learning in China, Christianity was also disseminated faster in China than before. In his novels and autobiography, Zhang Ziping expressed his ideas about Christianity, which also represented some other Chinese ideas about Christianity during that period. They affirmed the necessity and right of religion for human life, and even thought Christianity superior to domestic religions and Buddhism and worthwhile to replace Buddhism. Zhang＇s novels and autobiography revealed a desire-driven religious panorama in China, and exposed the Chinese national trait of lack of religious fervency and the structural defects of Chinese culture.