Analysis Of Religious Function In The View Of Marx And Engels

Religion,as a kind of historical phenomenon,exists objectively in the world.It has existed in different forms of the process of social development.Religion plays a very important role since it appeared in various aspects of human life.As a matter of fact,religion is the hot topic for long time and the object of study of many researchers.But,for a long time,people misunderstand and hold the opium theory point of view on religion,put the religion as social cancer.In fact,with the development of the word,such as economic globalization,political multi-polarization,and cultural diversity,social informatization,religion have a profound effect on human society not only in production also in function,it has a meaningful influence and irreplaceable special role in the human social development.Based on religious thoughts and writings of Marx and Engels,the paper trys to explain the rational criticism of religion during earlier time of Marx and recognize to religious issues of Engels during his later years,what’s more,try to estimate religious history in the development of environment and play different roles in different historical periods at the perspective of historical materialism.We should put down the prejudice about the religion that exists during the traditional society in the past.At the perspective of social function,religion is regarded as a kind of ideology,cultural phenomenon and social organization,which drives people to analyze from various aspects,such as mental patterns,thought patterns,culture,art and others.Finding out important effect on life and death issue when people believe in religion.Actually,the religion play a role of the humanistic value in social morality.Based on the above understanding,If we hold a objective and correct attitude to religion in society status and in the future path of development,we will avoid negative influence of religion and make the best use of the positive aspects for social function to a better society.In order to solve the problem,at the same time combined with current situation of contemporary China,we need to explore theoretical significance of Marx and Engels religious thoughts and to guide the religion in socialism society,make contribute to the construction of socialism for closing to the Chinese dream,in addition to this,according to the trend,we’d better strengthen the nationalreligious dialogue between countries.