清末民初天津妈祖信仰中的两种逻辑

Two Logics of Worship of Mazoo in Tianjin City from the Late Qing Dynasty to Early Republic of China

本文以生活逻辑与政治逻辑的研究框架考察了清末民初流行于天津地区的妈祖信仰。其中,政治逻辑主要体现在统治者的神道设教上,而生活逻辑则体现在民众对妈祖有求必应与的愿望以及对妈祖信仰的利用之上。两种逻辑的提出可以作为一种观察视角或观察方法,以此去考察一个特定的神祇信仰,从而重新认识信仰背后的运行逻辑。

This paper investigates the popular worship of Mazoo in Tianjin District from Qing Dynasty to early Republic China based on the frame of living logic and political logic. And the political logic is primarily reflected in dominator＇s respect for god while living logic is embodied in people＇s expectation on Mazoo＇s almighty and taking advantage of that. The proposition of these two logics can be regarded as an inspecting perspective or approach, which is applied to investigate a particular worship of god in order to recognize the performing logic of belief behind.