中国汉人自发的宗教实践——神仙教

A Spontaneous Religious Practice from Chinese——Fairy Sect

以何种术语或概念来界定中国汉族民间所固有的宗教实践,多年来海内外的研究者给出了不同的概念或术语,但这些概念都存在只关注到民间或社会下层而忽略上层,也即忽略了民族的整体的问题。将中国汉族自发的宗教实践称为"神仙教",也许能解决这一问题。"神仙教"的概念是一个既能反映社会事实,又能很好地对中国汉人自发的宗教实践进行分析的概念。

For many years researchers home and abroad gave different terms or concepts on how to define all the religious practices in folk Chinese, but these concepts only focused on the lower class, ignoring the upper class and the national integrity. Fairy sect may solve this problem. Fairy sect is a concept not only to reflect the reality but to analyse the spontaneous religious practice among Chinese.