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Contemporary Chinese Belief Crisis

Posted on:2015-05-31Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X H KongFull Text:PDF
GTID:2285330431478981Subject:Ethics
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Faith is an old topic, but also a time topic. As a spiritual phenomenon of humansociety, it is both rational and irrational unification, the unification in practice, and thespirit of unity, practice and the spirit of the individual to the group unity etc.. In sociallife, religion plays an important role in body and mind, and encouragement, condenseforce, therefore attracts people’s attention.Current status of Chinese belief is: the ideology based political belief is weakened,while the common people of faith and diversified, resulting in the integration functionof belief should be weakened, faith service social development power is difficult toshow. Discussion on Chinese belief of contemporary public opinion can be roughlydivided into three kinds: one is the concept of belief crisis theory, two is the lack ofbelief theory, three the only faith is useless, these three views reflect a kind of mentalstate the current people’s belief, namely "anxiety syndrome". The performance of this"symptoms" is: the lack of political beliefs, moral beliefs, desalination lost faith in law,folk belief system in surface sediment. These "symptoms" has its historical origins,namely the history of the formation of the faith tradition, the reality of soil is thetransformation and upgrading of the current economic and social China, westerndeveloped countries on the implementation of the China "peaceful evolution" strategy,is the external power of modern China faith crisis.Contemporary Chinese belief crisis to promote reconstruction of faith.Reconstruction of faith is a huge system engineering. During the period, to deal with therelationship between faith and doubt, and pay attention to play the intermediary role oftraditional culture. The spirit of the principles and methods of such, in order to form a"belief in communism or Marx’s belief in the top, China socialist ideals and beliefs inthe middle, the common people private belief at the bottom" has Chinese characteristicbelief system. Belief has different levels and fields, therefore, we cannot speakgenerally how to rebuild. And to highlight the problems according to the differentbeliefs, analysis of its causes and characteristics, adopt effective method, to be constructed, this will make the future more realistic belief system.
Keywords/Search Tags:belief, the crisis of belief, the lack of belief belief, reconstruction
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