宗教对傈僳族民族认同的影响分析

An Analysis of Religious Influence on the Identity of the Lisu Ethnic Group

宗教是影响少数民族民族认同的重要变量。本文认为,原始宗教在傈僳族的形成过程中,与这一民族的世俗生活几乎是融为一体的,因而在历史上对其民族认同的形成和逐渐稳定起到了关键性的作用。而作为外来宗教的基督教,并没有真正触及到傈僳族民族观念的核心部分,它在重构傈僳民族文化的同时,却也在一定程度上加强了其民族认同意识。

Religion is an important variable that affects the ethnic minority identity. This paper finds that primitive religion was integrated into the Lisu＇ s secular life in the process of the formation of the religion itself. Therefore it played a crucial role in history in the formation and gradual stability of the identity of this ethnic group. On the other hand, Christianity as a foreign religion has not really touched the core part of the Lisu＇ s eth- nic concept. When the ethnic culture of Lisu was reconstructed, it strengthened their sense of ethnic identity to a certain extent.