和谐社会下民间宗教的应然与实然——以妈祖信仰为例

民间宗教作为宗教的范畴,它的发展具有普通宗教发展过程的一般规律性,这些规律性为民间宗教的发展指定了道路,构成了民间宗教的应然性范畴。同时,民间宗教自身又具有特殊性,这些特殊性使其区别于狭义的正规宗教,组成了它的实然性范畴。文章论述了民间宗教的应然特征与实然特征,探讨了民间宗教在构建社会主义和谐社会中存在的可能性,以及和谐社会中民间宗教的表现形式、发展方向等问题。

The Anticipative Trend & Factual Routes of Local Religions under Harmonious Society

Local religions,as one form of the religious category,has the same characteristic of common religions in their development,which indicates the way to the growth of local religions and forms their anticipative developing trend.At the same time,there are special features of their own for these local religions,which distinguish them from the narrow-sensed normal religions and construct their presently factual routes.The article depicts the traits of both the anticipative trend and the factual routes of local religions,discusses their existing possibility in constructing socialist harmonious society,and explores the manifestation forms and developing orientations of local religions in harmonious society.