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The Conflict And Adjustment Between The Traditional Religions Of Minority And Christianity

Posted on:2010-03-18Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J Y LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155330338475282Subject:Religious Studies
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The traditional religious faith of Hani nationality with characteristic of polytheism worship is the typical religion of the minority traditional religious faiths in southwest China. The minority ethnic religions have strong primitive character and polytheism because that base on the blood relationship. It formed significant differences with Christianity. Christianity has the characteristics about the faith of single divine and of universality and of modernity. The conflicts between them had never being stopped whatever in external behavior or in intrinsic ideas since Christianity arrived in minority regions in China. The conflicts and adjustment is always the important communication form of the minority traditional cultures and foreign cultures. And is also one of the important ways to modernization of minority traditional cultures.The religious cultural conflict is not regarded as a scourge so as to fear. But we should not turn a blind eye to spread the destruction of conflicts. We should actively to adjust the conflicts to guide people's values to the needs of the development of modern society and to the development track of the socialist core values. The paper analyzed the value differences and the causes of conflicts from the realistic society conflicts between Hani traditional religious faith and the Christian faith. Secondly the paper revealed the value differences and its causes between them from the nationality and globality in believers, a divine and divines in faith object, secular and transcendence in faith motivation Etc. Finally the paper analyzed the main ways and means of adjustment to realize multiple coexist from the basic religious motive and convergence of human.Basing on the analysis about the religious cultural conflicts and adjustments the paper further thought that the comprehensive effects of the relations in opposite and uniformity constitute the power system of the innovation of culture development. These opposite and unity relations including the contradictions of "traditional" and "modern", "national" and "world" factors in cultural system, and the contradiction relationship between the cultural system and outside of it. We should grasp the development opportunity of the cultural conflicts and adjustments to promote the development of the development and innovation of the national and traditional cultures.
Keywords/Search Tags:Minority, Traditional religious faith, Christianity, Conflict, Adjustment
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