论宗教与民族认同

宗教与民族虽属不同领域的概念,但在现实生活中却存在着密切的关系。宗教对民族尤其民族认同具有五个方面的重要影响:一、宗教是民族的一个基本特征,是民族认同的重要标识;二、宗教是一类次生民族生成的认同标识,在其形成过程中起着决定性的作用;三、宗教是民族分合的特定因素,一个民族因信仰不同的宗教而发生分离,不同的民族也因信奉同一种宗教而聚合为新的民族;四、宗教是构建族源认同的重要因素,不同来源的民族因信仰某种宗教而重构相应的族源;五、宗教是族类认同的一种方式,其族际认同意识最为强烈。

Church and Ethnical Toleration

Different as they are, ethnic and church are closely related in the reality of life, for church usually has significant influence on ethnical sense. To sum up, church influences ethnical toleration in the following five ways: first, a basic characteristic of an ethnic, church is an important symbol of ethnical toleration; second, church is a symbol of toleration to the rise of a sub-ethnic, playing a decisive role in the course of ethnical derivation; third, church is a particular factor which affects the unification and disintegration of an ethnic; fourth, church is an important factor of ethnical proto-toleration; finally, being a means of ethnical toleration, church shows the greatest sense of interethnical toleration.