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"Religious Ecology" or "Power Ecology" ——To Begin with the Trend of the Theory of "Religious Ecology"

  

  • Received:2010-07-21 Online:2011-01-15 Published:2011-01-15

Abstract:

 The social essence of China' s contemporary development of religion is not only the issue of religious ecology, but also the relationship between religious faith and social power, that' s to say, its deep problem being the problem of China' s contemporary power ecology, not being the problem of the interaction between Christianity and folk religion faith. The relationship between the development of China' s contemporary religion and its religious faith, or the contradiction or even conflict between them, in fact, concerns power ecology or social ecology. As far as China' s current trend of social change, it is actually a neglect of commonality and sociality of modern country and modern society to rewield the flag of the "Chinese tribes in the east", or to be exact, to use anxiously the Chinese tradition to construct orthodox faiths. In regard to its essence, than saying to give a space of development to folk faith or folk religion, we would rather say to open a religious relation to return a freedom of the social practice of religion and faith, if we want to settle the contradiction between China' s contemporary existence and development of religious faith. This essay, from the complicated relation of China' s contemporary religious faith, tries to sort out such issues of sociology as power ecology and the faith in the level of the nation.
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