信仰形成与信仰教育的合理化

信仰问题是当代社会不容忽视的重大问题。信仰的形成包括社会历史过程和个体实现过程。迄今为止的信仰表现为原始信仰、宗教信仰、理性信仰、科学信仰的历史演化趋势。信仰的个体发生总体上经历符号模仿阶段、模糊懵懂阶段、自我觉醒阶段、自觉确证阶段、调整完善阶段。当代中国的信仰教育应基于信仰发展的历史趋势，把握人们的实际信仰状况，将教育融入个体信仰的形成过程，采取情理交融的教育策略。

Faith Formation and the Rationalization of Faith Education

The importance of faith cannot be underestimated in contemporary society.Faith formation is achieved through social historical process and individual realization process.In terms of the evolu-tion history,the faiths in the world have developed from primitive beliefs,religious beliefs,rational beliefs,to science beliefs.Generally speaking,the ontogeny of faith goes through stages of imitation, fuzzy ignorance,self-awakening,self-verification,and adj ustment and perfection.The faith education in contemporary China must be based on the characteristics of faith evolution and the actual status of people's faith,integrating the education into the formation and realization of individual beliefs with sense-reason blending strategies.