Study Of Marx's Religious Theory

The religion is an ancient and complicated cultural phenomenon, it can show the people's understanding of the world by its unique perspective, its formed with the development of human consciousness, from then on, the religion influence on all aspects of social life with different degree. The special nature and form of religion has caused debate and concern by thinkers of the past dynasties, creating different religious theory. Due to the limitations of the times before Marxism produced, all kinds of religious theory were failure to give a scientific explanation for religion. Until the creation of Marxist philosophy, the essence, the function, the social root and the developing regulation of religion getting the scientific reveals,realizing the great change of religious theory.Marx's theory of religion has its profound historical background, it is based on the reflection of reality and development trend on Capitalism, it is a dialectical negative result of the bourgeoisie's non-thoroughgoing about religion criticism. Looking from the source of ideological, Marx has affected deeply by the German Religious Reform Movement and religious criticism movement, especially formed on the basis of the criticism towards Young Hegelians'represented by David strauss and Bruno Bauer,and Feuerbach's religious criticism theory.Marx's religion experienced three interrelated stages which is early period, transitional period and theory of born. The early period is the Rheinische Zeitung period,at this time, due to the effect of Feuerbach, Marx started from the pure religious criticism to the criticism of the social politics;The transitional period is the time of German-French Yearbooks,its representative is on the Jewish Question and Hegel's Philosophy Comment Preamble, the final produce of the theory is marked by Holy Family, German ideology, Theses on Feuerbach and The Communist Manifesto. Marx's theory of religion contains rich content, through the careful analysis of the social base, the nature, the social function,the development trend and regularity of religion, Marx formed a complete theoretical system.In contemporary China,use the religious idea of Marx to solve real religion problems will have a certain value and important meaning.To the religion, this long-standing cultural phenomenon, we should take advantage of the religious idea of Marx to explain it comprehensively and Scientifically, arouse the enthusiasm of its positive factors on the socialist advanced cultural construction and the socialist spiritual civilization construction,using it to solve the religious problems in our country combine the characteristics of the epoch.