摘要
民间宗教以巫术及民间信仰为依托 ,往往借助于社会关系发生变迁的历史机缘形成一定规模的宗教结社。由于它们的结社理念具有不同程度的政治色彩 ,所宣传的思想也因此常与官方意识形态相抵触 ,尤其是对“末劫”的信仰 ,所表达的是变革现实社会状况的潜在要求。民间宗教是中国民间的一股不可忽视的潜在力量 ,其存在和发展与中国传统社会的组织方式以及这种组织方式的局限性之间存在着密切的关系。
Taking the chance of the change of social relationships, the popular religions usually form some religious groups in various sizes on the basis of witchcraft and folk faith. The ideas of popular religions have different political color and contradict the official ideology to some degree, their ideas of 'eschatology' express the potential desire for the change of social system, so we can say that the ideal of civil society is the essential spirit of the forming of religious groups. It is a potential force that we should not disregard, and there is a very close relationship between such a spirit and the constituting way of traditional Chinese society and its limitation.
