民间信仰与官方意识

Folk Beliefs and Official Ideology

民间信仰是民间思维方式的表现。官方意识在民间信仰中的渗透、统治阶级对民间信仰的改造和利用,有助于民间信仰取得合法地位,但却使民间信仰丧失了自身的一些成分——如对现实的批判精神,从而把民间信仰演变为官方意识形态的另一种存在形式。

Folk beliefs reflect the folk way of thinking. Official ideology always penetrates into folk beliefs while the ruling class changes and uses them on purpose, which helps them to get legal status. But this process inevitably makes folk beliefs lose some of its essential elements, for example, its criticism on reality, and changes folk beliefs into another existing form of official ideology.