Abstract: With the highspeed social and economic transition in Shanghai, the new MiddleClass and Elite stratums have acquired considerable wealth and social status, and their strong "impulse to pursue material interest" has been satisfied during the past 30year reform and opening up. Against the background of rapid social change, however, they now find themselves confronted with new psychological problems including the confusion about value in keen competition and the loss of goal in wealthy life, which have largely influenced their measurement of personal "happiness". Suffering such psychological crisis, they start to try some experience of religion such as Buddhism. Nevertheless, their blind involvement in religious life is not only secularized and pancultural but utilitarian and superficial, which are also the main characters of metropolis Buddhism in Shanghai.

Key words: Happiness, metropolis Buddhism, secularization