The Analysis Of Religious Factors On The Evolution Of Political-society

As a subsystem in social system, Religion both takes on certain independence, but also has interaction with other subsystems of social system, such as political, cultural and so on. From the moment of its birth, original religion, national religion, till world religion, religion is inextricably linked with policy. As a tool for the dominator, or to replace secular rule, religion has left an indelible impact in political development of Europe and even the history of world politics. In this paper, as a begin with the general religious and political theory, within the use of literature study on research of the general relationship between religion and politics, focusing on analysis of the role of religion in Chinese and foreign political and social development, it has important theoretical and practical significance for benign interaction relationship between religion and politics in the new period.This paper is divided into four parts, the first part starts from the general theory of religion and politics, focusing on analysis of the relationship between religion and politics, through discussion religious and political content, analyzing the basic elements and property of religion and politics, which are the paper based on. As two parts of the social system, Religion and politics are not isolated, but has interaction which characterized by mutual cooperation and mutual struggle. The second part focuses on analysis of the religious factor in western society, the religious factor on the evolution of political-society is different in different church-state relationship. as the Reformation for the time set in this section, it is focused on analysis of the religious factor in western political-society development before and after the reformation, I think, before the reformation western society was mainly apotheosize-politics and state-religion politics; and after the reformation as the recession of the religious authority and the growth of secular power, each state has implemented the principle of separation between church and state, but it is only the separation in the legal or form sense. Religion is still play an important role in development of the western political-society as American for example; there is another form which religion still affects the development of western political-society, it is religious parties which will be shown in detail in this section. The third part is the analysis of the religious situation in Chinese political-society, through a description of religious profiles development in contemporary China, analyzing the interaction between religion and politics. The fourth part is the inspiration and policy thinking on the establishment of positive interaction between politics and religion, through the foregoing analysis, we found that religion still play an important role in the development of contemporary politics. We face serious religious issues as the majority of Western countries, therefore, dealing with the relationship between religion and politics correctly, guiding religion suited to social democracy are important issues in the development of politics and religion. The author makes some suggestions on the constructing optimum relationship between politics and religion includes constructing the harmonious relationship, managing religious affairs according to law, concerning with religion and national security, and guiding the religious development with socialist core values four aspects.