The Belief-crisis And Reconstruction In China’s Social Transformation Period

With the deep development of China’s reform and opening up, China has entered aperiod from the traditional agricultural civilization to the modern industrial civilization,from the traditional un-market economy to socialist market economy. The tide ofglobalization enables various cultural conflicts and collision, social structure isundergoing a profound adjustments. Belief is always the core in the kind of cultural valuein the period of social transition. Belief-crisis is an important problem in the period ofsocial transformation. This paper would discuss China’s belief of social transformationperiod from five aspectsIn the first part, through combing and summarizing the belief of Western andChinese to understand the generation and development process of belief. Differentcultural backgrounds of the East-West determined that the belief ‘s form，content areentire different. After the mutual collision and blend of eastern and western cultures, themain types of contemporary social belief views are humanism belief, scientific beliefsand marxism belief,In the second part, define the concept of belief in the philosophical sense. Tounderstand the beliefs of the Chinese society in transition should be based on a broaderperspective to know its characteristics and functions. In general, the belief alwaysperform the transcendence of the subject, the sacred object of faith, it is come fromsociety and has the relative stability emotion, it is also the person’s conscious activities.Belief also offers human ultimate concern, value standard, a powerful spiritualmotivation and can form the social cohesion. In general, The types of belief which havethe most closest relationship with the belief of social transition are political belief, moralbelief, religion and faith in life. In the third part, In theory, social transformation is the entire transformation ofsocial structure. The transformation of Chinese society is the change of whole structure,political-economic-social–cultural, four in one structural pattern transformation. Andit results the weakening of the national belief, the loss of personal spiritual and socialethics.and re-prevalent of feudal superstition and so on. Therefore, the belief crisis isunavoidable reality problem in contemporary China’s social transition,. This requires usto study belief crisis.The fourth part mainly analyzes the reasons of the belief crisis in the period of socialtransformation. Belief crisis comes from the confusion, doubt and wholly negation. ForChina, the market economy has a fickle kinds, if political cannot ensure the equity andjustice, it will lead to social moral anomie, and the people will lose their own spiritualhome. Belief crisis actually is the value crisis, the deep reason is the culture crisis..Belief crisis has a negative meaning but we also should see its positive parts.And in the last, through all the analysis, we try to offer a new method to reconstructof belief. At present, scholars have different views and attitudes to the China’s beliefcrisis. We should set up a regular, inclusive, sustainable and ethical belief. To make belieffrom the elite to the normal, use the Chinese traditional view of cultural beliefs, takethe marxist belief as our primary belief, and permit the other forms of beliefs exist is ourmethod to China’s belief crisis in the period of social transformation.