宗教信仰与社会冲突:根源还是工具?

Religious Believing and Social Conflict:Origin or Instrument?

基于微观调查数据,本文考察了宗教信仰与社会冲突之间的关系。结果表明,相对于非信徒,信徒产生冤屈情绪、参与群体性事件的概率更高。宗教对冤屈情绪产生正向影响的原因可能是信徒因为其身份遭受了不平等待遇;宗教对群体性事件有正向影响的原因可能在于,宗教对冤屈情绪有正向影响同时宗教的组织性降低了群体性事件的参与成本。这些结果表明,宗教本身并不是社会冲突的根源,其在社会冲突过程中所扮演的角色更多的是"工具"。

Based on CGSS and CRRP data, this paper studies the relationship between religion, grievance and mass incident. The results show that religion has significantly positive effects on grievance and mass incident. The reason why believers have more grievances might be that believers experience more inequality. The reasons why believers take part in mass in- cident more likely are that believers have more grievances and that religion reduces the organi- zing cost of mass incident. It can be inferred based on these results that religion is not the ori- gin of social conflict, but plays as the instrument in the social conflict.