民间宗教的社会学人类学研究：回顾与前瞻

文章系统回顾了中国民间宗教研究中的社会学与人类学传统,并提出了未来民间宗教在社会学领域内的三个发展方向。具体而言,将人类学的民间宗教研究划分为四个发展阶段并分别探讨了其特征。之后,阐释了杨庆堃及其后的宗教社会学者们对于社区性民间宗教的分析。最后从民间宗教概念的扩展、民间宗教与主流社会学理论的结合以及民间宗教的跨地区跨文化研究三个方面论述了未来中国民间宗教研究的趋势。

The Sociological-Anthropological Studies of Folk Religion: Retrospect and Prospect

This article systematically reviews the sociological-anthropological traditions in the studies of Chinese folk religion and proposes three future developmental trends.In particular,this work summarizes four distinctive stages in the Anthropological studies of folk religion and discusses the sociological research on communal folk religion in the studies of C.K.Yang as well as later scholars.Then,this article discusses the three possible trajectories in the sociological research of Chinese folk religion from the perspectives of the expanded definition of folk religion,the integration of folk religion in the framework of mainline sociological theories,and the potential cross-regional and cross-cultural comparative analysis.