民间信仰与客家社会变迁——以于都水府庙会和安远水泡庙会为考察对象

On Folk Belief and Hakka Social Integration

民间信仰在客家社会中发挥着重要的作用,成为影响社会生活的重要力量。民间信仰以庙宇为象征中心,乡土精英开展创造性的活动以及在村落成员的共同参与中客家社会得以整合,乡土社会也为民间信仰的存续提供了基础。随着城市化进程的加快,农村人口大量流失,包括民间信仰在内的农村集体活动都逐渐式微,民间信仰本身及其活动正在走下神坛并经历去集体化逐渐理性化的过程,民间信仰的组织管理机构也由传统形态向现代社团组织形式转变,民间信仰在回归私人领域的过程中,其公共属性反而不断被强化,社会整合功能不断被彰显,通过田野调查个案来解读民间信仰与客家社会变迁的互动。

Folk beliefs play an important role in the Hakka society and become an important force in social life. The folk belief is a symbol of the temple, the local elite to carry out creative activities and the participation of the members of the Hakka community in the village to integrate, rural society has also provided the basis for the existence of folk beliefs. Along with the city to speed up the process, the loss of a large number of rural population, including the folk belief of rural collective activities will gradually decline, the process of the folk belief is the altar itself and its activities and experiences to collectivization gradually rational, change management organization of folk beliefs from traditional form to modem organization form, folk belief in return of the private sector, the public property but is constantly strengthened, the social integration function have been demonstrated, through field investigation of the case to the interactive interpretation of folk belief and Hakka social change.