宗教经济与经济宗教简论——基于宗教意识形态与经济的关系的视域

Briefly on Religious Economy and Economical Religion——Talking from the relationship between religious ideology and economy

所谓宗教经济是指因宗教活动而产生的一系列生产、交换、分配与消费等经济行为的总称。而经济宗教则是指宗教组织为了维持自身运行的需要不得不发生的一系列经济行为,从而使宗教本身在客观上具有了一定的经济职能和性质。宗教经济与经济宗教两者所关涉的核心问题都是利益,前者是经济利益,后者是宗教利益。从积极意义上讲,宗教信仰能促进商品、市场的发展,推动社会经济文化的交流,引导大众的经济行为朝良性取向。同时,宗教的人文精神和价值观念对科学发展也有一定的推动作用,从而间接地作用于经济社会生活。随着宗教经济和经济宗教活动的日益活跃,依法管理宗教经济与以经济手段解决经济宗教中出现的问题并重,防止宗教产品的过量生产与宗教资源的过多消费而影响社会资源配置和冲击民众信仰,将成为处理我国宗教经济和经济宗教问题的正确方式。

Religious economy refers to all the economic conducts aroused by religious activities, concerning production, exchange, distribution and consumption. Economic religion means a series of economic behaviors that have to be done by religious organizations for their own operation, which makes religion objectively possess economic function and attributes. Religious economy and economic religion concern essentially interests, that is, the former is economic interests, the latter religious ones. Positively speaking, religious faith promotes the progress of goods and market, propels the communication of social economy and culture, and guides a right direction for the masses＇ economic behaviors. At the same time, the humanity spirit and value of religion promote scientific development to certain extent, thereby influencing indirectly economic and social life. With the ever- increasing activities of religious economy and economic religion, we should rule religious economy by laws and solve the issues of economic religion by economic methods, prevent the overproduction of religious products and resources and its consequence, such as affecting distribution of social resources and shocking masses＇ faith. It is to become the correct solution to handle our religious economy and economic religion .