宗教本质和儒学的基本性质辨析

宗教是信仰和崇拜超自然、超人间力量的文化体系 ,它是满足人的某种精神需要的具有神秘意义的意识形态 ,是人类社会发展到一定阶段的产物。儒学不是宗教 ,它虽然处于与宗教形成和发展的同一历史时期 ,但它的形成却植根于宗法血缘关系的伦理思想。不论宗教如何发展 ,我们都应把儒学放在特定的文化背景中去考察 ,历史地、全面地看待儒学与宗教的关系 ,而不能从现代宗教世俗化、道德化的意义上去理解儒学、诠释儒学

Analysis of Religious Nature and Confucianist Fundamental Features

Religion is a cultural system of believing and worshipping super-nature and super-human forces. It is a kind of mysterious ideology that can satisfy certain human spiritual demands. It is the result of human society developing into certain periods. Confucianism is not a religion though it occurred in the same historical period as religions. But its formation was originated from the ethics of patriarchal blood tie system. No matter how the religion develops, we should examine Confucianism in certain cultural context. We should historically and comprehensively treat the relation between Confucianism and religion and we should not understand and explain Confucianism from the perspective of religious vulgarization and moralization.