Intellectual And Religious Belief

With the development of the reform and opening, the thoughts, the culture and the material goods from the West enter into the Chinese's life, which brings many changes to the society, makes the measure of value varied and the social groups' interest complicated and conflict, during which the number of the people in religious conscience rise. Especially there are more and more young intellectual becoming Christian, which draws many scholars' attention.The author straightened out the information about the intellectual Christian in Taiyuan, chose some collective representatives, and drawn a conclusion about their characteristics and commonplace after thinking and studying .Beginning with the religious sociology and religious psychology, analyzing from the believers' faith identification and the social environment they live, the author inspected the way and the social environment of being converted to Buddhism, their identification, the influence towards their behavior and attitude after they became a Buddhist and so on.Then conclude that the reason of intellectual's religious belief is'the psychology need caused by the influence of traditional thoughts and attraction of west thoughts and the disorder of social transformation. We can say that religious belief starts to become the "personal filed" after its secularity. So the religious belief in China shows the tendency to "system religion" too. The social phenomenon of the intellectual Christians' increase in modern society has its own social and psychological base, and we should take more objective and reasonable analysis, not criticize and resist only when we face it. Only if we do like that, the religion will fit our national conditions.