The Western Minority Religion Research In China During The Period Of Social Transformation

The China western development strategy on an unprecedented scale in order to accelerate the process of modernization in the western region of China’s minorities more concentrated. Development of various minorities and minority areas face great social transformation, in the dialogue in the exchange of national traditional culture and modern civilization, must produce a series of much-needed study and solution of problems. Among them, many minority religious culture and modernization in the west of relations, is a major theoretical problem. Study on the issue is of great practical and theoretical significance. In the construction of the whole country, with important strategic significance.Marxist view of religion believed that religion is a human social activity and the social reflection of human consciousness. It is a long historical process, and start and end of the process has its profound social, political, economic, and cultural causes, not to anyone’s subjective desire to change. The cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party is the most ambitious undertakings in the history of mankind. Religion of which includes the construction of Socialist culture, making religion a promoting force of the Socialist cause.Contemporary ethnic and religious issues in western China are part of all social problems. Finally, settlements of this issue are consistent with the historical tasks of the Communist Party, seize this, and are to address the problems pointed out a direction. It is to be based on the reality of China, looking at the trend of the mind and vision. It is one of China’s social development issues, there are two key, one is the problem of modernity, problem-solving thinking and methods consistent with the Socialist cause with Chinese characteristics under the leadership of the Communist Party. Secondly, Chinese consciousness of the problem, this problem related to the Socialist construction with Chinese characteristics, concerns the overall interests of the Chinese nation, must be based on national unity, based on the harmonious development of the multi-in-one pattern of the Chinese nation. Need to meet the necessary requirement of China’s social development require the wisdom of the Chinese themselves. On the religious problems of the contemporary features, make a clear explanation of the concept of Socialist culture, the construction of Socialist direction of religious culture, contemporary features of western minority religious issues is under the leadership of the CPC, take the Socialist road, become important resource of the revival of Chinese civilization. Because in the long history, the development of various minority cultural and the progress of social civilization always linked with each other. Religion should become part of the construction of western society, which means that in the Socialist construction of political, economic, cultural, their existence and development of contemporary western religions of minority nation introduced and suited to the Socialist in orbit, according to the requirements of the development of the Socialist cause, regulate and guide the contemporary western minorities and religious affairs. On significance of religious, moral, ethical socialism explained and guidance of, making it one of Socialist construction. From a historical point of view, religion the overall trend in adapting the environment for social development, to seek their own existence and development, to adapt religious in this environment was more in line with the community in the process of development requirements.Contemporary western religious concept has special significance in the minority, in a sense, religious minorities, that is, the historical heritage of national culture, and important symbol of national identity, is also a member of the national ethics norm of daily life. People sometimes equate religious and national and even used religion as a political entity. In appropriate exaggerate the role of religion and status, put religion above the national idea, cause ideological confusion. Religious ideology is both a social and a social entity, and has a complex relationship, involving mass and class relations, ethnic relations, international relations, and so on. In contemporary China, religion is form part of national identity, has always been to maintain national unity and prosperity as important values, does not exist beyond the interests of religion and religious activities.Contemporary western religions of minority nation and cultural construction of socialism are to be carried out under the guidance of Socialist core values of Socialist construction and reconstruction of minority and cultural. Socialist values include two categories:these are the general values and the core value. They are objectives of Socialist value ideological guarantee and guide for action. Emphasis on people-oriented is the basic kernel of Socialist values. That is, only by the Socialist core value to do, to realize the value of Socialist goals. A core value of socialism with Chinese characteristics is the contemporary western minority religious and cultural core of the construction of value-oriented.How to correctly understand the religious and cultural construction of socialism, minority religious and cultural history of heritage and modern reconstruction of the status and significance, are important issues of religious and cultural construction of socialism. In the construction of this means, in the cause of socialist modernization in the western development, minority and religious issues must become an integral part of one of the, this is a religious issue in western minority special status in society and history and culture of the decision. Speaking minority religious and cultural reconstruction of the means, after decades of Socialist construction in western minority areas and minority community, from the social structure, lifestyle, social value identity has been a fundamental change. Go through the process of modernization in contemporary western society in transition, religious minority status and role in society, in the west spread mode changes. Members of the minority community in the west in the process of modernization, industrialization, urbanization and Informationization, its production, lifestyle, social relations, interaction of traditional religious culture in the new conditions under the new requirements. Ethnic and religious culture in the construction process of reconstruction is inevitable.