On The Social Function Of Religious

In order to have a objective view and argumention, the author of this essay chooses Lamaism in the Mongolian rigion as the reseach object, especially focuses on the area in Kulun, Tongliao, in the form of qustionaire, interview and field trip. According to the author's reseach findings, the function of religion is to normalize the social order with a universal agreement and regulation.First of all, belief is the core of religion. Religional belief plays an important role in people's opinions and behaviors and therefore influence their community relationship and social life. The author discovers that personal Lamaism is mainly influenced by the family members and environment. Most of the non-believers live in the rigion of Han Nationality, and they have little access to Lamaism and have less constraints by it. Religion ties its believers by a series of rules and makes them obey it exactly. As a resulr a kind, of order emerges with an orderly society, which can bring stability and safety to people , as well as mental sublimation and asethetic sentiment. Belief is men's basic and deep mental activity. It decides and dominates people's Weltanschauung,values and phylosophy and will act on social development and the course of history. During the long period of human history, belief has always had a close relationship with people. In our daily life, we always combine religion with belief and consider it as mental activity in ideological form. Actually, the intention of religion is not only like this, contains loyal monarchial power , strict law, fixed ceremony, infrangible taboos , laws and morals. It leads people's social life , family life, thought and behavior. It's not only material substance like miracles and temples but also the masses such as shamen and today's priests.Religion,the oldest and the most common cultural phenomenon greatly influenced people's lives with its tradition and mental power and impresses human's civilization in many aspects.Besides,temple is the most important symbol of Lamaism like any other religious organization. Nowadays, with the development of the times, lamasery has such important functions:90% of its believers choose lamasery as the place to consolidate their beliefs. Then it's also a mediate agency and provides a common scene for them . As for the relationship with state power,it helps to solve some social problems actively. For example, it played a sound part during the SARS period.The feature of the essay is not the unphilosophical deduce, but the meaningful empirical study towards religious social function. The essay is diveded into pour parts . The first part is the introduction. The second part introduces the general situation of lamaism in the region of Kerqin followed by the comment on the function of religion. The fourth part gives proofs to the function of religious organizations.