走出宗教起源迷宫的"阿里阿德涅之线"——读《宗教概论》有感

宗教的起源和发展是宗教学研究中的一个复杂和重大的理论问题。从19世纪宗教学建立以来,提示宗教起源之谜就一直是众多宗教学家和哲学家为之努力的目标。段智德先生新近出版的《宗教概论》,在总结这些理论探究的基础上,“从更深的层次上对宗教的普遍本质和一般发展规律做出说明”,从“现实的历史的人的生存需要以及社会生产方式的历史演进”出发,在历史和逻辑两个维度上提示宗教产生、发展的直接动因以及更为基础的“动因的动因”,为走出宗教起源的迷宫提供了基本的方法论原则。

The Line of Ariadne:Going Out of the Religious Origin's Maze

Origin and growth of religion is a sophisticate and important theory's problem in the studies of religion.Investigating the problem is beneficial for us to understand and philosophers have been tried to open out the riddle of the religious origin.In Introduction of Religion that being recently published,on the foundation of summarizing these theory's achievements,Mr.Duan Dezhi puts forward the basic thought of "the logic in accordance with the history".For the sake of "elucidating the general development regulation and the widespread innate character of religion from the deeper level of structure",he said,we must disclose the efficient cause of religion and its more basal "efficient cause"on history degree and logic degree.The explanation is set out from "the survival demands of realistic historical human-being and the history evolution of social mode of production".This standpoint provides the basic methodology principle and the theoretical way that inspire our thinking for our going our of the maze of the religious origin.