汉代的类宗教迷信和民间信仰

在佛教传入和道教产生以前,中国没有真正意义上的宗教,但又有很强的原始的宗教现念和多神的原始宗教信仰。汉代主要是一种非常独特的、泛神论的、以我为中心的、功利性的、严肃与戏谑同在的“类宗教”,在社会精神生活中起着十分重要的作用。民间信仰也受到它的影响,而表现为多种形式,形成许多陋俗,成为两汉社会的一大景观。两汉时期一些无神论思想家所加以批判的,也主要是这种类宗教迷信。

The Resembling Religious Superstition and the Folk Beliefs in the Han Dynasty

Before the emergence of Taoism and the entry into China of Buddhism, there was no religion in the true sense,but there were strong primitive religious ideas and multi-god Primitive religious beliefs, which can be called resembling religion. It played an important role in social life at that time and it also influenced the folk beliefs.