Marx’s Critique Of Religion And It’s Contemporary Value

Though Marx’s critique of religion is not the main portion of Marx’s theory, it is the origin of Marx’s thought which is as important as the political criticism. The impact of Marx’s critique of religion is remarkable. This thesis is going to analysis the value of Marx’s critique of religion bases on its core content and the current situation of contemporary China.In the introduction, the first part, the research background, significance, methods are going to be synthetically explained, in order to provide the clear ideas and advance the methodology.The second part is to primarily do a research of the theory origin of Marx’s critique of religion. By combing through the deepening religion theory of Marx’s, the origin of his critique of religion would be clarified. Reviewing with the history and integrating with the reality can help us to grasp the essence of Marx’s critique of religion from the basic. Marx derived the religion theory of Western philosophy; hence his view about religion is inextricably linked with Western philosophy. Marx’s critique of religion is closely associated with the theories of religion of Hegel, young Hegelians, and Feuerbach. Therefore, study the relationship of these theories is helpful to the following research.The third part is a major research of theoretical connotation of Marx’s critique of religion. This part will realize the different between Marxist theory and religion’s theories about human nature by studying the analyzing and comparison of each other. The traditional religions spread their ideas with humanities while Marx’s historical materialism made a qualitative leap of humanity and an acute criticism on God. Marx made a leap of religious criticism which has important academic value. And analysis the way to eliminate the enslavedness of religion, in order to make a replacement of religious redemption labor liberation.The forth part is to primarily study the practical significance of Marx’s critique of religion. The research is mainly analysis the important significance of Marx’s critique of religion for the elimination of belief crisis. And to do a research of deepening of Marx’s critique of religion by refuting the religionization of Marxism and the guiding function of religious work and cultural development in contemporary China.