Research On The Status And Function Of Rural Religious Belief In Hebei Province

Religion is in the country beforeit has a long history and complicated social and cultural phenomenon. Religion is a important topic relating to a stable and harmonious development of the society. The current China’s rural exist widely existed in feudal superstition, cult forces dregs and so on, religion management is not standardized, these problems need for Rural Religion to be analyzed in depth, correctly guide the religion to play its positive role in society.From the current situation of rural religious belief in Hebei Province, different religious beliefs complete, Christianity, in the rural areas is especially rapid development in recent years, the Catholic Buddhism, Taoism and folk beliefs are widespread. Rural religious belief has four basic characteristics, there are utilitarian motives, vulnerability beliefs will, fuzzy belief multiple object and the doctrine of understanding. And the reason of rural religious belief active include social factors and personal factors. In social factors, due to the rapid development of market economy and national relaxation of the religious policy makes religion in the countryside and active development; reduction of rural public areas, narrowing the scope of activities to provide space for the development of rural religious politics; the anomie of the grass-roots party organizations to integrate the masses down closer to the religious organization; cultural imbalance, various values collide, leading social essence The lack of God is influenced by the social environment, and in the personal factors, the performance of the individual ideological and weak, the scientific and cultural level is low, weak legal knowledge and so on.From the point of view of the social function of Hebei Province rural religious belief and its positive role is conducive to the development of harmonious interpersonal relationships and social welfare undertakings, is conducive to the believers to regulate economic behavior, establish a correct concept of wealth; conducive to the social morality level of development and the progress of social civilization and so on. At the same time it will also bring some negative effects, such as exclusive effect of villagers in rural religious doctrine of daily communication, authority of grass-roots party organizations in the eyes of the villagers, religious masses curing thought is not conducive to the formation of the pioneering spirit in the market competition, the religious activities easily become illicit enrichment tools. These all have a serious impact on scientific belief in the establishment and propaganda in the countryside.Through the investigation and analysis of the current Hebei province rural religious belief, on the one hand we must correctly treat the positive social effects of these, the harmonious society, the development of socialist new rural construction requirements. On the other hand, from long term, we should be fully aware of the religious problems in the complexity, particularity, not immediately and completely eliminate it. In the face of these negative effects, we take corresponding measures to solve the problem, through some soft measures(cultural spirit) and hard measures(Foundation) combination, to actively guide rural areas in Hebei Province, religion and socialist society, to adapt to our contemporary socialist core values so, the harmonious relations between religion and the rural society.