论原始宗教在早期文明发展中的文化价值

Cultural Value of Primitive Religion in the Development of Early Human Civiliztion

原始宗教是原始氏族———部落制社会的伴生物,是氏族制社会的上层建筑。适应氏族———部落制的社会存在,原始宗教的根本目的,就是最大限度地满足初民的生存需要和群体组织延续的需要,原始宗教在事实上从诸多方面满足了这种需要,在人类早期文明发展史上体现了其应有的文化价值。可以说,如果没有原始宗教及其文化功能的发挥,人类文明的维系、积累和传承就失去了精神的动力。

Primitive religion is a super-stratum construction of a clannish society as well as a concomitant of a tribal society(Primitive clan). The ultimate aim of adapting to the social existence of tribal-clannish system and primitive religion is to meet the needs of the primitive extent. primitive religion practically fulfilled such needs in various spects and embodied its deserved cultural value in the early developmental listory of human beings. It is safe to maintain that the continuation, accumulation and heritage of the human civilization would not have been possible without the exertion of primpitve religion and its cultural functions.