| The main aim of the study is to investigate the folk religion in Ba Lin You Qi territory of Inner Mongolia. This includes finding out the concrete manifestation of religion in contemporary, and the characteristics in thought of religious and social activities, and further analysis of popular religion in contemporary Chinese society and values of the function as well as modern society and changes the impact of popular religion. Finally, reevaluate and locate the contemporary folk religion.First chapter, in "Define the scope of civil religion and research status ", the purpose of highlighted the "civil religion" of the "civil" are:First, the corresponding of "official" and "civil", and Second, the corresponding of "elite" and "folk". The folk religion can bear into three platforms:The original health-based folk religion, the creation-based folk religion, and the folk-based folk religion.The second chapter "Ba Lin You Qi several folk religion" is to introduced the culture of Shamanism by focus to mound as the representative, a mixture of Shamanism and Buddhism Taoism features "Incense head" of faith as well as the deification of historical figures come from the worship of Genghis Khan, worship of Guan Di, and princess worship these types of civil religion in the Bai Lin You Qi the specific circumstances and status.The third chapter "Analysis of the characteristics of folk religion", concluded with a figurative thinking folk religion, causality thinking, and compensatory combination of thinking the religious thinking of these three features of thinking, as well as civil religion, not only uphold the ancient rituals and customs, a good calm again docking feature of the social life of modern life.The fourth chapter "The analysis functional folk religion in contemporary society ", as an integral part of ecology of China's traditional religion and culture, civil religion in contemporary Chinese society is playing an important role and can not be ignored, such as:First, settle in, to provide for their beliefs and spiritual outlook on the world convert; Second, the emotional imagery, to develops inspiration and vitality the culture and art in contemporary Chinese; Third, the religious ecology, linkages traditional culture and civil society, the active role of human in restoring the ecological balance of the religion and culture play; Fourth, the folk religion as the root of many ethnic minorities, in the promotion of national unity, equality, common prosperity of all ethnic groups have an important meaning; Fifth, the folk religion and culture in the promotion of tourism in economic development has a strong boost.The chapter five, "Modern, secular state:The impact of modern society to civil religion," mainly describes the impact m of modern society to civil religion. This is mainly manifested in the surface of a part of folk religion in many cultures to begin with modern society, a part of the original has disappeared in the revival of popular religion, the birth of a number of emerging folk religion, and civil religion in modern society has reflected the lack of faith issues, the collective dependency issues and rural medical and health issues in rural areas and so on in the performance of contemporary Chinese society.The sixth chapter "Repositioning of contemporary folk religion", in science, the interpretation in the phenomenon of shaman, incense head, mediums, and many other "God vector," are weak and not efficacy, Simply for the contemporary society of reason and science, blindly believe that provides a reflection and alerts; at the same time, the changes of modern Western philosophy from the "Disenchantment" to "re-enchantment"-- Namely, those who adopt a rational for its "Disenchantment" into pairs of rationality (instrumental rationality) own "Disenchantment"--from a philosophical point of view criticized the flaw of rationalism, scientism. Therefore, came out the conclusions that we should abandon the misunderstanding of civil religion, and re-admits the value and status of folk religion in modern society.In conclusion, the author started from the multidimensional nature of people, advocated that people who need all-round way and open up their own multi-cultural, and through the progress of these cultures to continue to understand themselves, develop their own, to improve itself, and on this basis emphasizes the value and legitimacy of popular religion in contemporary society.
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