太平天国宗教“邪教”说辩正

文章首先考察了“邪教”一词的历史渊源,分析了传统与当代“邪教”概念在具体定义上的本质区别,强调不能沿用封建社会的正统观念,将“邪教”视为历史上民间秘密宗教的代名词。接着,作者针对太平天国宗教是“邪教”一说,就洪秀全是否是一个借宗教起家的“骗子”和“淫棍”,如何理解洪秀全在起义前夕所发布的恐怖性宗教预言及其“造神”举措,如何理解洪秀全对内部所实行的严格控制,圣库制度与邪教敛财是否是一回事等逐一进行了辩驳,对借“邪教”说全盘否定洪秀全与太平天国的偏向提出了质疑。作者还就围绕"邪教"说所反馈出的学风等问题谈了自己的一些感想。

A Refuting of the View that the Religion of Taiping Kingdom was a Cult

The paper, firstly investigating the origin of the c haracter Cult, analyzes essential differences between the tradition and contempo rary Cult in their definition. The author emphasizes that we should not regard C ult as synonym for the secret religion in the history and that the feudalistic view should also be eliminated. In the following, the article argues about the p roblem: whether the Taiping Kingdom was a Cult before refuting that some perspec tives one by one such as Hong Xiuquan was a swindler and incubus, who set up his spiritual image, how to comprehend the horrific religion prediction and his pla yacting as the second son of the God before starting revolution, how to comprehe nd the internal strict control, whether the Saint Warehouse System and Cult's co llecting of wealth are the same, and so forth. And then the author brings up a query for a erroneous tendency that Hong Xiuquan and the Taiping Kingdom were to tally repudiated. At last the author puts forth some of his views on the style of study concerning the Cult.