神在圣与俗之间：理解宗教的一种社会学视角

自涂尔干首倡以来，神圣与世俗即成为宗教学研究中的一对经典范畴，而人与神的关系则是贯穿宗教学研究的一条主线。从本质上说，人与神的关系是个体与自我、个人与社会关系的一种反映。宗教正是人神互构、圣俗交织而成的一种客观社会建制，宗教中的神介于圣与俗之间。“神”作为宗教社会学分析的概念，具有生成性、建构性、功能性、多样性等特征，应从宗教活动的客观事实方面进行理解，做出符合科学精神和时代精神的阐释。

Between Divineness and Secularness: A Sociological Perspective to Understand Religion

The divineness and the secularness have become a pair of the classical concepts in the study of religion since Durkheim advanced them. The relationship between man and God is the main subject in the study of religion. In essence, the relationship between man and God reflects the relationship between individual and oneself as well as individual and society. As a matter of fact, religion is a social system constructed by man and God, the divineness and the seculamess, and God lies between them. As the core concept of the so- ciology of religion, ＂ God＂ has the charateristics of generativeness, constructiveness, functionalness and diverseness. Therefore, people should, on the basis of religious activities, understand God objectively, and interpret it in accordance with the spirit of science and that of the times.