“借身人”信仰：神启现象的社会学分析

自古以来，基于神启现象的民间信仰在中国基层广泛存在，但在理论意义上，却通常被中国宗教研究者所忽视。而且，吊诡的是，诸多西方主流宗教都源自神启，宗教市场理论也对其进行了社会科学的分析。这为跨文化信仰比较提供了新的研究视角。为了充分说明神启现象的理论意义，本文将首先引入宗教市场理论对神启现象的具体分析，辨析与指明既有理论中的隐含假设及其可能的拓展方向。并通过展示“借身人”信仰的微型民族志，从信仰的发生学与动力学等方面，详细呈现不同于西方神启现象的信仰逻辑。最后，在排他性与包容性的比较视野下试图讨论两类信仰的差异，并进一步拓展既有的宗教理论。

The faith of Jieshenren: A sociological analysis on divine revelations

The faiths based on divine revelations have been existing in folk society in China for a long time, which were still being neglected in Chinese religious researches in term of religious theories. Moreover, majority of mainstream western religions originated in divine revelations, on which Religious Market Theory has made a sociological analysis. It provides us a theoretical foundation to make a further comparison between the logic of faith in western culture and in Asian culture. In order to illuminate the theoretical significance of divine revelations in Chinese folk society, the analysis on divine revelations by Religious Market Theory will be introduced in detail and its implicit hypothesis as well as further possible directions will be designated clearly. Then, an ethnographic study on the faith of Jieshenren will be presented to point out the genetic and dynamic process of divine revelation separated from ones in the western. Finally, A new logic of faith based on divine revelations will be given to extend the related existing theory.